Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight

Re:Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight by matthewdgreen on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:03PM (#22378067)

What this case demonstrates is that the fantasy of government-free tech is just that, a fantasy. Governments are going to be increasingly involved in issues that only techies used to care about, and it behooves us to make sure that involvement is as benign as possible.

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Re:Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight by Apocryphon on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:28PM (#22378812)

This should’ve been clear to everyone from the get go, when research into electronic computers began during WWII under the aegis of military codebreaking.

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Re:Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight by rsthjrsthrs on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:50PM (#22378993)

Realistically it's too late for that. Industries that want to be apolitical need to actually behave apolitically, one look at the circus of blatantly political employee activism at google and other big companies demonstrates that tech can't be trusted to be adult enough to accomplish that goal.

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Re:Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight by dragonwriter on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:04AM (#22381057)

> Industries that want to be apolitical

Industries, pretty much without exception, don't want that.

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