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Big ol' CIA-authorized blackmail stash in their archives
Substantive Response: Mass Produced Journalism, be it's consumption or production, is purely a therapeutic exercise for the vain and the neurotic. Actual Investigative Journalism is dangerous for the investigators.
The only thing keeping journalist outfits going is the monumental amount of blackmail they've accumulated since the dawn of the camera. We all get to suffer with the journalist's delusions of grandeur because they have footage of a Rothschild grandchild slumming it once.
Furthermore, your calculation of someone's reach isn't entitled to be the standard of how reduction of reach is to be applied.
In fact, you don't even own the audience or the platform that you claim you have the right to deny others from using.
You have absolutely no say, sway, or stake in anything you are discussing. You're just hiding behind a Google lobbyist's buzzphrase and pretending you are targeting people you don't like.
Open source made Internet hardware affordable for mass use.
Mass use of Internet hardware destroyed privacy.
Even at its peak, 1950s IBM didn't have enough money in the world to violate privacy the way Google does. And the only reason Google can do it is because it stands on the infrastructure of Internet servers that were able to proliferate to the point of pennies per megabyte due to open source code.
Yes, open source code is DIRECTLY responsible for the economics that has made the destruction of privacy endlessly cheap.
HN: yaaaaaay
2020: open source all the intelligence!
HN: Now hold your horses, mister
What did you think making programming widely available was going to do? Did you think nation-states and their bloated bureaucracies would magically step in and go full North Korea about privacy to protect us from you?
This accountability-denying pearl-clutching HN does every time they see an OSINT technique is ridiculously predictable... and only demonstrates your culpability in creating this mess in the first place.