• lime!@feddit.nu
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    11 hours ago

    doing it incompetently is arguably worse, because that involves storing way too much info and sharing it too freely.

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      Yeah. I’m not a fan of any if this, but nobody cares when you say ‘dont be evil¹’; not being pointlessly recklessly evil isn’t a serious grown-up policy. better to do a political Tesla valve; introduce competing contradictory evil, dilute the propaganda, and arrest momemtym

      ¹except HUAC. HUAC cares.

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        11 hours ago

        you say that, but if that was the case why would ibm go to all that trouble to get an exclusion from the json user agreement clause “the software shall be used for good, not evil”?

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            11 hours ago

            they probably do, just that we don’t get to hear about it until a couple of years have passed.

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              No like i don’t think they’re still competent enough. Morally, sure, thry could be that evil.

              If, say, Denver needed that database, they’d do it before the check cleared.

              I dont think they could do it for a large country.

              They would want to, they would take the contract, ans it would hire so many subcontractors cut so many corners the end product would be unrecognizable.

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                11 hours ago

                i mean

                Edit: sorry, reuters seems to be stripping stuff off of the link. the quote i linked to is

                Technology giants Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM were named as “central to Israel’s surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction.”

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                    fair enough. i just know ibm is a big actor with many european governments as well, more so than the others. probably by virtue of having been around a lot longer.