(November 15, 2018 at 5:48 pm)Brian37 Wrote: What we need is to beef up our intel and cyber security
Careful what you wish for.
Recently Amazon announced it would build a new headquarters outside Washington DC. This is largely so it can get a huge government contract for a program called JEDI. Seriously, that's the name.
JEDI will be the government's cloud computing and data storage. Meanwhile, it turns out that if you have an Amazon Alexa in your house, Amazon is storing recordings of every conversation you have at home.
So basically, the main place we shop, owned by the same guy who owns the Washington Post, will be working with the government to gather and mine massive amounts of data, to watch over us. This is the definition of fascism: government and capital working together for total control.
(And it confirms my belief that Star Wars is the government's most effective propaganda machine, intentionally or not. We are trained to root for and identify with the likable rebels, while our own government, to whom we pay our taxes, acts exactly like the Star Wars evil empire. We are massaged into believing we are the good guys, while we are really the bad guys. JEDI just rubs it in.)
