Re:Never Mind the NSA, What About Google and Facebook?
by forgottenpass on Thursday June 11, 2015 @08:43PM
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I don't think this is the is a particularly strong argument, but an incredibly important point none the less.
There are different mechanisms and motivations by which corporations gain, express and are removed from power. But I remain thoroughly unconvinced that those make the power wielded somehow benign.
There are differences, sure, but to quote my favorite blogger: Wired are more horrified about NSA spying, despite there being an explicit terms of service agreement with them that what it finds without a warrant is inadmissible, but Google monitoring my sexts for their commercial benefit is SAGE approved behavioral economics. Google buying Boston Dynamics is better than DARPA having it, is that the game we're playing now? If I had to put my chips and my children against an 8 year rotation of civil service nincompoops vs. some nerd with an open marriage who spent $15M on a "bachelor pad" so he could score chicks of questionable emotional stability, I'm going with the group my private sector lawyers have an outside chance of pwoning.
There are different mechanisms and motivations by which corporations gain, express and are removed from power. But I remain thoroughly unconvinced that those make the power wielded somehow benign.
There are differences, sure, but to quote my favorite blogger: Wired are more horrified about NSA spying, despite there being an explicit terms of service agreement with them that what it finds without a warrant is inadmissible, but Google monitoring my sexts for their commercial benefit is SAGE approved behavioral economics. Google buying Boston Dynamics is better than DARPA having it, is that the game we're playing now? If I had to put my chips and my children against an 8 year rotation of civil service nincompoops vs. some nerd with an open marriage who spent $15M on a "bachelor pad" so he could score chicks of questionable emotional stability, I'm going with the group my private sector lawyers have an outside chance of pwoning.