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9HZZRfNlpR on Aug 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple suspends Siri response grading in response t...

The vast majority of mass surveillance tech is programmed in Silicon Valley. These are the most privileged and intelligent programmers out there, they absolutely do have power, or at minimum a choice, to quit and get another well paying moral job.

AstralStorm on Aug 2, 2019 [–]

Silicon Valley, where developers live in trailer parks? (San Jose for example.)

Silicon Valley, where the ethos is to get rich quick by accepting personal degradation and eschewing morality?

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