A Better Internet Requires Ending the Monopolies w/ Cory Doctorow
Tech Won't Save Us
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Do You Think the Nsa Will Be Able to Provide These Tools to the Government?
In the book, you talk about how the east german stasi recruited one and 60 people to serve as informants. But in the united states, you know, they don't need to do that, because they have these tech tools, right? And even after nine 11, there as a proposal called operation tips that would have had up to one in 24 americans working as informants. That really wasn't necessary with the nsa, right? So do you think that with the ability of these companies to provide these tools for the government, and their increasing willingness to do so, that that also kind of will make it more difficult to force the united states government to take these anti trust actions
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