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Re:WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor y... by tptacek on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:21PM (#34463179)
The links you've pasted here make my case for me. Canada sponsored a series of TED talks, for a pittance relative to what they send to other NGOs. Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world. This is lizard people stuff.

Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event and an easy way to get publicity. Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a shadowy extragovernmental puppetmaster.

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Re:WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor y... by TeeMassive on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:05AM (#34464291)
> The links you've pasted here make my case for me. Canada sponsored a series of TED talks

The links I've posted are not talks...

Show me where the Government of Canada has actual agreements with TED to enact, decide or orientate policy.

> Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world.

My source is the head of the WEF.

> Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event

This doesn't make sense, important people do not need networking events, the are already public figures.

> Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a shadowy extragovernmental puppetmaster.

You're making a straw man argument, I didn't say that.

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Re:WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor y... by tptacek on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:23AM (#34464350)
If the head of the TED Talks organization claimed he had infiltrated world governments, I'd take it equivalently seriously.
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Re:WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor y... by TeeMassive on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:59PM (#34468466)
The head of TED doesn't invite government officials around the world every year to make official agreements on policy.
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Re:WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor y... by tptacek on Saturday January 21, 2023 @04:05PM (#34470524)
Citation needed.

Matthew Yglesias probably has more impact on policy than the WEF does. That's not a compliment to Yglesias.

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Re:WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor y... by TeeMassive on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @04:40PM (#34510852)
> Matthew Yglesias probably has more impact on policy than the WEF does

Citation needed.

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