Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the erosion of privacy
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Legendary technologist Larry Ellison has outlined a vision for an increasingly aggressive surveillance state in the 21st century
  • themurphy@lemmy.ml
    58·
    1 个月前

    Lets record everything CEOs and government officials do in their spare time, and lets see how long that lasts.

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        15·
        1 个月前

        would we care, though?

        we literally have hundreds of millions of documents between the epstein files and the freedom of information act files themselves detailing the behavior of the ruling class manipulating and manufacturing propaganda and we collectively ignore them nonetheless.

        • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          1 个月前

          Nah, just freely share all of it with all of the other rich people. Let them get angry and jealous and destroy each other when they realize how much they’re purposely screwing each other over.

          • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 个月前

            it’s not only already freely shared, but both it’s distribution is legally mandated since the 1960’s and has been in the public domain since the 1970’s; yet here we are with the overwhelming majority willfully ignorant of it because it contradicts our indoctrination and it’s not spoonfed to the masses by tv or smartphone.

        • iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 个月前

          Do we really care about any reality stars? Fire them out a cannon into a mountain all I care, wait that I’d watch closest to hit the bullseye with their billionaires body still screaming wins

  • Aneorthisio@lemmy.ml
    26·
    1 个月前

    The simple fact of using the word “citizens” instead of people sounds awfully dystopian to me.

  • LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip
    12·
    1 个月前

    If you are always on your best behavior, doesn’t that also mean you are also on your worst behavior? Are there specific times to relax permitted?

    What is it about the plummeting rates of violent crime in the past few decades that called for this erosion of human dignity?

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    1 个月前

    These dumbasess are nearing the wish and dream of every autocratic government in human history: to fully automate the military.

    Its not done yet dumbasses, why are you revealing these cards in such a public way? They are so impatient and arrogant, which will one day be their undoing.

    The inevitably of end stage capitalism marches closer

    • RockBottom@feddit.orgOP
      5·
      1 个月前

      Thiel moving to Argentina too soon, too? Maybe place your administration one more time, before leaving the mess you made?

    • PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 个月前

      They’re trying to make us feel powerless, while giving investors the impression they have the most dystopian product: as products without regard for morals tend to yield the highest returns. The biggest bullshitter will secure most venture capital, to be weaponized against competitors.

  • RiverRock@lemmy.ml
    10·
    1 个月前

    Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
    7·
    1 个月前

    Best behavior for the cameras. While we find ways to hack the system, scramble facial recognition, create alternative spaces they can’t touch, etc. We’re not going to broadcast how we circumvent their constant onslaught of creeper bullshit.

  • patient_tech@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 个月前

    Only the middle class will be worried about this. Larry was obviously never broke. When you’re broke with no options, you don’t care. What are they going to sue, sue you when you’re already in a stack of debt? Take away the house and car you don’t own? Get you removed from your crappy job you hate anyway? I don’t see that as a plan the works out like they expect it to. It’s only when you have something to lose you’re worried about losing things. When you’re starting with nothing, there’s nothing they can take from you. Their plan doesn’t account for that.

    • dropdrip@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 个月前

      If your murder a CEO the state will provide you with free housing & food. Something to think about…

    • Trioxin@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      1 个月前

      “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” - James Baldwin

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      32·
      1 个月前

      the upper echelons of the middle class are the reason why this fuckery keeps going on.

  • fira@lemmy.today
    4·
    1 个月前

    Fuck Larry Ellison. I bet his mom didn’t breast feed him enough & his dad never tucked him in at night

  • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 个月前

    Also,

    “You already have zero privacy - get over it.” - Scott McNealy

    SM was founder of Sun Microsystems. Ironic part is… Sun had very little to do with the total destruction of privacy. Not compared to Google, Meta, Tiktok, and some 100’s of data broker companies nobody heard of but sit in the shadows and amass dossiers of every single human being.