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Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording
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Re: Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording
#32"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on" Video games and YouTube can't be entirely to blame for the significant falls in alcohol consumption and the night entertainment industry generally. People don't want to get drunk, do something stupid, and end up on blast all over the Internet now that everyone's carrying a camera connected to the ent…
I am absolutely convinced as well that this a huge factor behind younger generations not drinking as much, at least not in public. One night of fun going bad would have been forgotten in the 90s, now it could very well cost you your job or schooling.
Heck forget drinking, these days there's always someone nearby who's ready to upload your worst moment to Tiktok, so don't you dare have mental health issues either.
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#33Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.
Re: Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording
#34Right because the UK is such a safe place.
> because the UK is such a safe place
Objectively, it is [1].
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intenti... 1.1 vs 5.8 intentional homicides per 100,000
Re: Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording
#35It feels like a handful of billionaires and politicians recently decided that the world’s problems aren’t rooted in them or the systems that elevated them. Since the system worked for them, it must be sound; the problem must be everyone else. Their solution seems to be more control, more oversight, and a few technocratic tweaks. And if we just let them keep steering society, utopia is right around the corner.
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#36Ok Larry, where's the minute-by-minute footage of your private life?
TBF, this article kinda is it, as they're playing back comments he made a year ago (under a different administration) during an earning's call.
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#37Larry Ellison is ultra-pro Israel if you didn't know. He and others are pushing for Bari Weiss take a key role at CBS to better "defend Israel": https://nypost.com/2025/09/19/media/shari-redstone-says-bari... And many people are worried about a similar type of agenda setting at TikTok now: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/will-tiktoks-new-own... Netanyahu, for his part, believes it is super consequential for E…
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Re: Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording
#38The fact that an out of touch billionaire might say such a thing doesn't bother me much, he's out of touch after all. The fact that we reliably and repeatedly see peasants (i.e. any less equal animal, so everyone here) who have no such excuse cheerleading for specific implementations in furtherance of their pet issues bothers me greatly. I'd say you ought to know better, but you do. When these subjects are discussed…
How is he out of touch? He clearly is extremely in touch with the current direction of AI and the abilities to use it for mass surveillance.
Portraying these people as naive villains is not helpful at all. They have very clear goals and the means to accomplish them.
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#39I encourage people making snap comments to read at least one entire paragraph of the article:
> “We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”
I'd say I'm about as much against the modern surveillance state as the next codger, but that doesn't mean I don't understand its implications. People do act differently when they know they are being watched. Even more so when they know they are being recorded.
There's still quite a bit of federation in that each store or home has its own cameras, and chaining them together to get an end-to-end view of a series of events is still manual. But that won't be like that forever. Whether we like it or not, that's only going to get easier.
Re: Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording
#40Larry Ellison is ultra-pro Israel if you didn't know. He and others are pushing for Bari Weiss take a key role at CBS to better "defend Israel": https://nypost.com/2025/09/19/media/shari-redstone-says-bari... And many people are worried about a similar type of agenda setting at TikTok now: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/will-tiktoks-new-own... Netanyahu, for his part, believes it is super consequential for E…
That’s a study shoehorn…
Would his statements be better if he were pro-Gaza or something else?