The root cause of everything bad, the error of errors, is to have private property of the means of production. Without it, we’d have a wealthy, technologically advanced civilization within planetary boundaries. Socialism first!
The Authoritarian Stack
Submitted 3 weeks ago by chobeat@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
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uszo165@futurology.today 3 weeks ago
dublet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Beam me up, Mr.Curry.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Or we could have politicians that do their jobs. Socialism doesnt fix any of these issues.
Companies will act just as degenerate when all their employees depend on its success and if you’re one of the socialism except state controlled thats even worse because you put all your eggs in that basket and if the government is bad you’re fucked. Look at what trump is doing as an example of how that could go.
demonsword@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Amen, brother. But, unfortunately, most people around here finds it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Somebody was like, “this is all horseshit. Ima map it.”
majster@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
To me this seems like any other big gov procurment. Which is bad of course but isn’t anything new. And I fail to see how this leads to authoritarinism especially in Europe. We have our own local home grown cliques that capture gov contracts.
perishthethought@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I’m no expert, but the issue here seems to be replacing many smaller contracts with one big one for Palantir. I. E., one agenda headed in one dark direction.
But what do I know?
majster@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Honestly I don’t know what would be the difference if this was a contract with Oracle, Microsoft, SAP etc. That is democratic stack?
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
that’s how pretty much all business works though.
as your company grows it’s preferable to have fewer larger providers for services. when you are small you have multiple vendors.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We have our own local home grown cliques that capture gov contracts.
Yes. If you scroll to the bottom, you find that the project is led by Prof. Francesca Bria.
Looking her up on Wikipedia, one has 2 thoughts: 1) She has a lot of hustle. 2) Why haven’t I heard about any of that?
This is just the Monorail Man doing the song. Except with disturbingly fascist overtones.
majster@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
yeah her bio looks like a lot of EU funds for various projects that are POC and then shelved. US big tech is basically her natural enemy in that regard.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
because calling it authoritarianism makes it sound big and scary…
what you are describing… which is simply the routine processes that have gone on for 100s of years in governments… isn’t big and scary.
people like this need to look up the Dutch East India company.
Kissaki@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
that have gone on for 100s of years in governments… isn’t big and scary
When I look back there’s several governments I find scary.
Pointing these things out and running alarm bells is important. That is a systematic recurring problem doesn’t change anything about the problems at hand.
Are you saying “there have been things like this before so we should see it as normal and not do anything about it or point it out”?
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
How uplifting
ifGoingToCrashDont@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is really great (and by great I mean terrifying to see it all laid out plainly). The only nitpick is the idea that the model “is coming to europe next” … as if this whole thing wasn’t kicked off by Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Europe was the testing bed for this a decade or more ago.
HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Yeah Brexit was a test run. Great Summary by Carole Cadwalladr “The great British Brexit Robbery” (published by the Guardian, de-published following pressure by Google, I guess, but can be found on the net).
I was completely spooked by the fact that these Brexiteers were using language in a Nazi-like way.
menas@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
yep, there is a blind spot around imperialism; the European bourgeoisie come to the US to learn what the business ant the politic shall be made and come back with the US point of view. For example in France, the spokeswoman of the Parti Socialist (one of the main party) is working for Palantir.
This is not an exception, every administration run windows for millions each years, even if their is a dedicated administration to go to open source