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Re:Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens a... by archagon on Saturday January 25, 2025 @05:37PM (#42825622)
The oligarchs have now realized that nothing is going to stop them, so the masks are coming off.

How long until corporations start organizing their own private militias, I wonder?

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Re:Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens a... by ChrisMarshallNY on Saturday January 25, 2025 @06:04PM (#42825858)
Check out the history of the Pinkerton Security agency.
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Re:Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens a... by jaggederest on Saturday January 25, 2025 @05:50PM (#42825735)
Negative sixty eight years[1]. Oh, you didn't mean the private military contractors, of which there were about 250k involved in the iraq and afghanistan war, slightly more in total than deployed troops at any given time.

Many ultra-high-net-worth individuals hire them. It's no secret, they've been doing it since the 60s when kidnap and ransom insurance started being a serious thing, and it's only intensified over time. There was an interesting "bolt hole" real estate listing that claimed years supply of food, water, housing etc. for a "company sized group of security contractors" as an amenity.

[1] G4S, the largest PMC company, founded in 1957

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Re:Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens a... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday January 25, 2025 @06:34PM (#42826073)
> they've been doing it since the 60s when kidnap and ransom insurance started being a serious thing

Private security has been a thing for millenia!

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Re:Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens a... by scyzoryk_xyz on Saturday January 25, 2025 @05:57PM (#42825799)
Perhaps they already do, we just don’t know about it yet =)
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