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One of the main founders of the internet, LickLider, saw it as a tool to help surveil and crush domestic protestors, and anti-imperialist movements. (lemmygrad.ml)
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From Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley (great book btw).

Side point, but one of the main ppl on this project was another state department trot: Ithia sole de Pool.

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[โ€“] FidelChadstro@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This thing happening in a capitalist liberal democracy is just like George AuthOrwelltarian said the communists would do

[โ€“] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

I spose since orwell was a british troop in burma, he's only a few decades early for this.