• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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      Asshole billionaire founder of asshole company Oracle. For reference, they sell cloud solutions and AI shit. What he says is that he wouldn’t mind a totalitarian surveillance regime of us peasants to make a quick buck.

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        I know what Oracle is and what they do, never thought about what kind of asshole their founder was, though. I guess most big tech companies were either founded by assholes or bought by assholes (or both)…

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          You have to stomp faces to get to this kind of wealth, pretty much all billionaires have empathy issues, either from birth or acquired.

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          Well he’s a billionaire so he probably does have some already, what needs to be done is to make these accessible to the public and sell the data to private companies. Just to see how this fucks feels about it.

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    If those are your views on privacy, mister, then let’s start by you giving everyone access to your personal messages, unedited or unrestricted.

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    This guy read Foucault’s discussion about the panopticon and took it as instructions. Ugh.

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      The panopticon was originally designed as a prison, so effectively Ellison is saying, “wouldn’t the world be great if everyone were in prison?”

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    Facebook proved that people are just as shitty when their identity is voluntarily public.

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    I agree wholeheartedly Larry so let’s start with monitoring the sex dungeon where you keep the abducted kids locked up, you fucking bootlicking Orwellian psychopath.

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    Yeah! Great! Let’s start by surveil all those rich guys and their behavior. For … let’s say … the next decade.

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    Our ruling parties have seen over the course of the last 23 years that Americans are accepting of living under constant surveillance, so as dystopian as this is, Ellison’s not proposing anything that is particularly outlandish. If you have any cash squared away, it might even be a good idea to research which companies are trying to get these government contracts and invest.