Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?
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Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?
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Re: Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?
#2In all likelihood, because they need the government to work with them. Google, Facebook, Microsoft -- all companies that must deal with regulations and shareholders who care more about profits than morals. The last thing any of them need is for the government to retaliate with stricter enforcement of those regulations, which might hurt their profits. The FBI's latest push for backdoors sends these companies a clear message: standing up to the government is bad for business.
Or, if we want to be optimistic, maybe they had no idea what their companies were participating in. Maybe the NSA people they met with were lying about their plans or purposes. It is a classified system, so maybe they felt compelled to leave out details that would otherwise have had the CEOs fighting back.
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#3"In this case a corrupt federal prosecutor (is there any
other kind?)...."
According to superstar trial lawyer Gerry Spence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Spence), as of when he wrote his book on Ruby Ridge, in an aside WRT serious prosecutor misconduct in that case, he has never tried a case against a Federal prosecutor in which there wasn't egregious misconduct. Come to think of it, his skill in finding that probably helps his near perfect success rate, and especially his signature tactic of resting without presenting a defense.
Re: Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?
#4Qwest.
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#5Because they didn't get rich blowing whistles, or by biting the hand that feeds them.
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#6It's simple. Verizon, Qwest, etc. are not tech companies. They are telecommunications carriers, regulated utilities, who are close to an extension of the government.
The implausible part of the worst PRISM allegations was that Google/Facebook/etc. behaved like that, but telcos have acted as extensions of spy agencies for as long as they've been around -- back to the "Black Chambers".
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#7"Do no evil" but do something much worst.
Re: Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?
#8It's simple. Verizon, Qwest, etc. are not tech companies . They are telecommunications carriers, regulated utilities, who are close to an extension of the government. The implausible part of the worst PRISM allegations was that Google/Facebook/etc. behaved like that, but telcos have acted as extensions of spy agencies for as long as they've been around -- back to the "Black Chambers".
> regulated utilities, who are close to an extension of the government.
This is a good concrete example of something I often point out, which is that an extension of the government is what regulation is.
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#9In all likelihood, because they need the government to work with them. Google, Facebook, Microsoft -- all companies that must deal with regulations and shareholders who care more about profits than morals. The last thing any of them need is for the government to retaliate with stricter enforcement of those regulations, which might hurt their profits. The FBI's latest push for backdoors sends these companies a clear m…
... and shareholders who care more about profits than morals
I think this issue goes against shareholders because they can lose real customers feeling defrauded.
It's realistic to expect legal actions against Google/Microsoft/etc operations outside US, mainly for Government accounts.
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#10This article is crap - Joseph P. Nacchio is serving 6 years for Insider Trading.