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Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military (www.technologyreview.com)
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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago

This isn’t new. Check out Yasha Levine’s Surveillance Valley. It’s a nice primer. Most of our internet tech was built for the military or funded by the military for military ideas (no matter what MIT or Berkeley theoreticians might try to convince you of).