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Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors

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Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors

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Post by harry8 »

m0zg wrote: post #56
alexilliamson wrote: post #38

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He just hired the DOJ to defend him in a lawsuit in which he is accused of rape. That seems like something.

Joe Biden is also "accused" of rape. Doesn't mean shit.

Actually it does mean something.

The USA badly, badly needs a way to get better candidates for both parties. Is there anyone who thinks this is the best the Republicans have to do the job for the american people? Is ther anyone who thinks this is the best the Democrats have to do the job for the american people?

Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors

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Post by qiqitori »

bartleby_ wrote: post #23
person3 wrote: post #18

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Except that The Washington Post operates independently, and has strong editorial standards, something that a lot of "news" sites on the Internet today don't even pretend to have. The Post continues to publish articles about surveillance, as well as articles critical of Amazon. For example, here's reporting on an interview with Martin Baron, the paper’s executive editor: Mr. Bezos holds conference calls with The Post’…

C'mon man. I have firsthand knowledge of an editor asking a contributor to remove mentioning Amazon in a story because it cast the company in a negative light.

Well... You may have firsthand knowledge or claim to have firsthand knowledge, but the rest of us don't.

When you saw that happening, did you just let it slide? Where did it happen? Was the story originally about Amazon or was it just an off-topic side remark that didn't really fit in?

Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors

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Post by boomboomsubban »

dwd wrote: post #70
switch11 wrote: post #39

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This: This sounds tinfoil hat crazy, but here we are. Not so crazy now At some point we need to just say it some of the largest tech companies are basically NSA+CIA partners and we're well on our way to having Big Tech completely integrated into NSA and CIA and DoD

All these 3-letter acronyms exists to further American interests - for a long time that was primarily the military/industrial complex followed by oil/gas. We're now just seeing the focus switch to supporting big tech as a priority.

It's still distressing to see those intelligence agencies further entrench themselves into fields perfectly suited for a surveillance state. Their reputation makes trusting that they won't abuse it difficult.

It may suit national interest, but it bodes poorly for the public interest.

Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors

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Post by bavell »

kube-system wrote: post #68
typon wrote: post #60

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"The sinister Huawei has close ties with the Chinese government. Our companies can't compete on a level playing field!"

Tech is in bed with the government everywhere on the planet, and has been for a long time. The question has never been about fairness, it is: who has your interests in mind?

As hard as it may be to accept, this is the reality we live in.

Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors

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Post by boomboomsubban »

kube-system wrote: post #68
typon wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The sinister Huawei has close ties with the Chinese government. Our companies can't compete on a level playing field!"

Tech is in bed with the government everywhere on the planet, and has been for a long time. The question has never been about fairness, it is: who has your interests in mind?

None of them particularly care about the average citizens interests, so treating the two similarly seems fair.

Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors

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Post by all_blue_chucks »

aazaa wrote: post #8

> For those keeping score, not only does Amazon own the The Washington Post and oversees the CIA’s Commercial Cloud Enterprise, it now has on its powerful board of directors the most visible figure from the NSA who illegally spied on Americans for the better part of a decade. This sounds tinfoil hat crazy, but here we are. Not so crazy now. Man in a position to have reams of compromising intel on the current presiden…

That quote is not in the article and is not even true (Amazon does not own the Post, and FISA warrants are legal).

Where did you get that nonsense?

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Post by sitkack »

propogandist wrote: post #80
01100011 wrote: post #73

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The government created Silicon Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo I have no evidence other than the sheer obviousness of it, but the ties still continue to this day. I have no doubt it is kept hidden from most employees due to the general political leanings of most Valley engineers. For instance, my work does a ton of work for the DoE and you hear them mentioned all the time. The DoD is also a custom…

Google bought Keyhole (now Google Maps) from In-Q-Tel, the CIA's VC firm [1] -- this was when Eric Schmidt was CEO. Maps was caught wardriving [2] with Google Streetview, linking Wifi access point names to physical locations early on. After getting caught, they settled for $13 Million last year. Now Google Maps and even location services on all Android devices uses wifi scanning and bluetooth scanning as part of loca…

Schmidt also _visited_ Assange, https://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-27...

Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors

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Post by moonchild »

granzymes wrote: post #61
perfmode wrote: post #43

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what % of the votes?

All of Amazon's shares have the same number of votes.

Amazon has non-voting shares.

Source: know someone who worked there. Bonuses were paid in the form of non-voting shares.

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