Throughout the 90s Microsoft was the company equivalent of a serial killer, so Gates had to really step up his public relations. Goldfish-brained liberal techies ate it up, and love him now.
"Authoritarianism" is usually just coded language to demonize anti-colonial countries. It's almost never used to refer to the "civilized" capitalist metropoles like the US and Europe, who have done their best to strangle every country that dares to exist outside their orbit.
Which country? Plenty of countries have at least a nominal right to privacy, but it doesn't end up meaning much when US companies own your country's communications platforms.
Snowden doesn't even think the NSA is evil:
The lesson of 2013 is not that the NSA is evil. It’s that the path is dangerous. The network path is something that we need to help users get across safely. Our job as technologists, our job as engineers, our job as anybody who cares about the internet in any way, who has any kind of personal or commercial involvement is literally to armor the user, to protect the user and to make it that they can get from one end of the path to the other safely without interference,” he told an auditorium filled with the world’s foremost computer and network engineers at a 2015 meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force in Prague.
He reaffirmed his view a year later at Fusion’s 2016 Real Future Fair in Oakland, California. “If you want to build a better future, you’re going to have to do it yourself. Politics will take us only so far and if history is any guide, they are the least reliable means of achieving the effective change.… They’re not gonna jump up and protect your rights,” he said. “Technology works differently than law. Technology knows no jurisdiction.”
Snowden is a brave guy in some ways, but even in spite of his leaks, he's remained a naive US-supremacist libertarian, who evangangelizes tech over political action, defends the OTF, silicon valley, and US-DoD funded crypto tools and privacy apps.
The lesson of 2013 is not that the NSA is evil. It’s that the path is dangerous. The network path is something that we need to help users get across safely. Our job as technologists, our job as engineers, our job as anybody who cares about the internet in any way, who has any kind of personal or commercial involvement is literally to armor the user, to protect the user and to make it that they can get from one end of the path to the other safely without interference,” he told an auditorium filled with the world’s foremost computer and network engineers at a 2015 meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force in Prague. He reaffirmed his view a year later at Fusion’s 2016 Real Future Fair in Oakland, California. “If you want to build a better future, you’re going to have to do it yourself. Politics will take us only so far and if history is any guide, they are the least reliable means of achieving the effective change.… They’re not gonna jump up and protect your rights,” he said. “Technology works differently than law. Technology knows no jurisdiction.”
The US is gonna be so whiny when it's plan to fund imperialism through more tariffs falls through.
Nightly rsync job in crontab works well enough, if its an external hard drive.
If you're going over a network, syncthing.
Oh you're building production facilities to feed and cloth your people??? That's not very communist of you to not abolish the commodity form and wage labor.
Also countries are cringe, real communists don't need one. Stop building things!
/s
The best definition of authoritarianism: "When you tell white people they can't do imperialism"
I'm about halfway done recording this as an audiobook. Losurdo somehow manages to never lose his chill while spending hours dissecting all these western chauvinists.
Is this really the first burger pope?
Ya, he does really good work on all the US capture of publishing houses and the "theory industry"
So instead of children of men, we get abu ghraib. great /s
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