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How America's Top Tech Companies Created the Surveillance State
National Journal ^ | 7--25-13 | Michael Hirsh

Posted on 07/26/2013 7:28:22 AM PDT by Dysart

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To: G Larry

That is all true but still the issue, as I see it, isn’t about designers but of active, ongoing participants, and their aims. I am open to the prospect those aims are debatable, while highly skeptical given, as you note, the current political climate.


21 posted on 07/26/2013 11:09:11 AM PDT by Dysart (We may either circle the drain or circle the wagons; it's a matter of decrees.)
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Given Obama’s hatered of America, you can count on him using all available tools to execute our destruction.


22 posted on 07/26/2013 11:17:15 AM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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Oh, I’m crystal clear on Obama’s objectives— but I cannot say confidently every agency or govt employee engaged in this business shares his vision. Let’s hope not. No doubt he followed political protocol and stacked key posts with those who do, though.


23 posted on 07/26/2013 11:41:01 AM PDT by Dysart (We may either circle the drain or circle the wagons; it's a matter of decrees.)
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To: Resolute Conservative
This best describes today’s tech giants. If not for the likes of guys like Kelly Johnson, Edison they would be baristas at best.

Their products are the work of genius, regardless. Considerable amounts of intelligence and hard work went into products like google search and even Facebook (try managing databases containing billions of items, modified rapidly, and have the whole system still stay stable. How many FR crashes in the last few months, again?). Even Edison would've been a nobody but for the giants before him. Down to the guy who invented the wheel, and before that, the people who invented language.

24 posted on 07/26/2013 2:08:29 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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