Pushback on Surveillance Technology
“AN EXISTENTIAL FIGHT over the US government’s ability to spy on its own citizens is brewing in Congress. … the FBI’s biggest foes on Capitol Hill are no longer reformers merely interested in reining in its authority. Many lawmakers, elevated to new heights of power by the recent election, are working to dramatically curtail the methods by which the FBI investigates crime…”
Pfizer also acquired a different company last year that can help patients who are in recovery from health problems caused by their own shots, for only 6.7 billion dollars.
In my opinion, this lawsuit is insane. It’s also very dangerous, as it could open the door to regulation requiring people to have a digital ID to use the internet (which is what I think this is all about; it’s what the Davos crowd has been harping on). Technology platforms should be sued for violating the First Amendment. But I’m not holding my breath.
I hear you, FiatLux. Dangers, toils, and snares. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Oral arguments here:
I agree, this seems like trying to sue a bus company for a crime that someone committed on a bus.
Except the laws applied to busses may pertain, but in question are those little creatures called algorithms.
Those are nefarious little buggers.
Had started to write a more long-winded post but then deleted that, was something like:
If a bus driver becomes aware of a crime happening on his bus, he (or she) has a responsibility to do something about that such as call the cops, and if they fail to stop the crime or report this then that would make them guilty of enabling the crime to continue taking place if they keep driving the bus down the road.
I didn’t look much into these “twitter files,” but I remember hearing one major problem with that was it sounded like the bosses were completely aware that crimes where being committed with their platform for years but did nothing about this, so that is a problem.
Yes, a key factor is that, to the extent that algorithms are profit-maximizing, diligence to other factors is suppressed.
They sound like spiders.
That is a pretty but really tangled web there, almost looks like an abstract art.
Spider webs are interesting how they are made so organized, webs seem different than nets made to catch fish.
That was a good book Charlotte’s Web about the spider that could talk!!
I love that book by E.B. White. I taught it every year to elementary students! Charlotte Cavatica!
Shattuck Hall used to be an Elementary school now that’s PDX’s public safety office and architecture school, the second in Oregon to be an accredited school by the National Board!
https://www.pdx.edu/arts/shattuck-hall
This is a unique school founded in 1946:
History | Portland State University
I transferred there after UW denied my application to their Arch major, but failed first 300 level design studio because had difficulty working with prof to produce good designs for the Corvallis Waldorf school who had hired us to draw up plans for renovating old public school buildings, difficult project that.
Thanks for sharing, My first elementary school was the oldest standing building in the barrio. There were numerous health issues, as you can imagine, including the fact that it had been built on top of a old Kodak chemical processing facility. I was stationed in the basement, without windows, and only one unsafe route of escape for the kids and me.
Oh no, that sounds horrible!
Charlotte’s friendship 
saved all of us, including Wilbur!
A struggle is taking place right now as corporate states, criminal elements, parts of civil society, all vie to build the coded algorithmic environment around us. The “coders” identities are quicksilver at best; yet, they do possess an ethos, a collective intelligence[if you will], which parallels the spirit in all of us to resist domination and unfairness, and - more importantly, they do have skin in this “coded” game that is afoot globally.
