He’s voicing what every billionaire and government official already thinks. Call me pessimist but I believe it’s unavoidable. VPNs are seen as “tools to overcome government bans to access illegal websites” in so many countries, hence getting banned. Access to mainstream websites also getting harder and harder when on VPN. People hosting Tor exit nodes are living in fear of police raids.
Even with some little amount of privacy protecting measures, websites start to act strangely or do not work, and the amount of websites like this increases every day. As protecting our privacy becomes a bigger and bigger effort, more people will give up, strengthening the arguments against it. Eventually we’ll hit big brother levels.
I2P could be a solid option over TOR then, no?
Fuck you Larry.
“Citizens” 🙄 Not every person is a citizen; I’ve got a pet peeve about this.
Robocop… the movie they love but don’t realize is a complete mockery of THEM. As a kid I thought that Robo was just cool, but as I got older and rewatched it a few times, I realized just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
You know what’s one profound thing I noticed a few years ago that flew over my head? The ED-209 robot does not have a non-lethal apprehension method. It only threatens to kill for non-compliance, and then does so if compliance is not absolute. It has no way of restraining or leading arrested suspects if they comply, and no other method to deal with non-compliant suspects other than to blow them away. No tasers, no net gun, no ropes, no tear gas, no sci-fi ‘set for stun’ laser beam, nothing.
On top of that another thing I realized is that Dick Jones considered that thing to be street ready to take on law enforcement. From everything to ultra-violent encounters to jaywalking and parking tickets. What it tells me about his mentality is that he would be a HIGHLY successful billionaire today…
So the Panopticon. The hypothetical prison that even people in the 1800s thought would be a human rights violation to build because it was such an extreme form of psychological torture.
Well, we already experience that psychological torture. After 2002/2003, and then especially after 2012, this concept has already burdened our everyday behavior. Browsing behavior, phone calls, texts, emails…every single way we communicate, even face to face meetings with phones in our pockets are open to surveillance. And it’s been shown that it’s been used. Over a decade ago, thanks to Snowden. Now? Things have surely gotten worse and I would bet the farm on behavior very much having changed due these facts.
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Yeah, another factor I didn’t even mention. The voluntary surveillance.
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When envisioning the rising of such surveillance system turning our prison into a planet, I had always hoped that the “hackers” in the world would protect us from such.
The first XKCD that comes to mind
Ellision sounds like the kind of guy that wants an unstoppable army of robot swarms.
Representative Jamie Raskin recently brought up the term neo-monarchy.
This dude can shove that stupid boat up his ass
Hear hear!
Lmg, he’ll be exempt from this surveillance along with all his rich ass-hole buddies
Subjugating the working class majority is literally the whole point of establishing a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Didn’t the French have a solution to this problem? Something about heads, or a lack there of.
billionaires who talk like this should immediately be committed. he’s clearly far gone, just fucking take him away.
My best behavior is to be on Larry Ellison’s front yard with pitchforks burning torches and guillotines.
what he really means is he can make a ton of money out of it
What he really means is the rich can prevent uprisings against them before they have a chance to start.
I aim to misbehave
Love me a good Firefly reference.
That went well.
Dude is crying for a guillotine. Someone tell this asshole movies aren’t real life events. lmao
“[Stupid rich person shit]”
–Larry Ellison, soon to be major shareholder of Paramount
Private jets . They’ve all got multiple front yards & none of us can afford pitchforks But small aeroplanes, those are weak. & these parasites just looove em
Ay they took capitalism so far it wrapped around into orwellian territory.
