It's not a deep article, but this alliance makes it increasingly clear that Google will do anything to avoid regulation and potential loss of control of its users' data. I'm inclined to believe...
It's not a deep article, but this alliance makes it increasingly clear that Google will do anything to avoid regulation and potential loss of control of its users' data. I'm inclined to believe that when Google and the Kochs say "privacy", the word does not mean what one would expect.
The Koch brothers' political stance is well-known. Donald Trump's election may have given them pause for thought, as they're newly claiming a bipartisan approach.
The Kochs are sponsoring thinkpieces like this one on online free speech. Superficially sensible, but with a clear bias against regulation.
While there's a strong philosophical bent towards libertarianism within the tech industry, in practice, libertarian politics have favored existing economic winners. The strange and destructive alliances being formed on this side of the political spectrum bear close watching, because they're often not good for the majority of humanity.
Peter Thiel's another good example of libertarian billionaries pushing their ideology in tech, this time in the executive branch. After being a major donor and support of Trump, his private big...
Peter Thiel's another good example of libertarian billionaries pushing their ideology in tech, this time in the executive branch.
After being a major donor and support of Trump, his private big data intelligence company, Palantir, won the $876 million dollar Distributed Common Ground System contract, moving yet another major US federal agency's systems (others include ICE) over to a privately controlled monopoly-platform.
(and at risk of being hyperbolic, I can't help but be a little reminded of IBM supplying and operating Nazi Germany's punch card machines, which were critical to the Holocaust. there are in fact some things that we do not want web scale)
It's not a deep article, but this alliance makes it increasingly clear that Google will do anything to avoid regulation and potential loss of control of its users' data. I'm inclined to believe that when Google and the Kochs say "privacy", the word does not mean what one would expect.
The Koch brothers' political stance is well-known. Donald Trump's election may have given them pause for thought, as they're newly claiming a bipartisan approach.
The Kochs are sponsoring thinkpieces like this one on online free speech. Superficially sensible, but with a clear bias against regulation.
While there's a strong philosophical bent towards libertarianism within the tech industry, in practice, libertarian politics have favored existing economic winners. The strange and destructive alliances being formed on this side of the political spectrum bear close watching, because they're often not good for the majority of humanity.
Peter Thiel's another good example of libertarian billionaries pushing their ideology in tech, this time in the executive branch.
After being a major donor and support of Trump, his private big data intelligence company, Palantir, won the $876 million dollar Distributed Common Ground System contract, moving yet another major US federal agency's systems (others include ICE) over to a privately controlled monopoly-platform.
(and at risk of being hyperbolic, I can't help but be a little reminded of IBM supplying and operating Nazi Germany's punch card machines, which were critical to the Holocaust. there are in fact some things that we do not want web scale)