Electronic Frontier Foundation
Palantir, aiding Trump's deportation efforts, gets its name from Lord of the Rings, so “I don't think it's a stretch to say that some tech CEOs & politicians are reading dystopian books as instruction manuals,” EFF’s Will Greenberg told UCF’s The Charge. https://www.nicholsonstudentmedia.com/news/dystopian-books-as-instruction-manuals-ucfs-role-in-israeli-weapons-manufacturing-privacy-concerns/article_b94ab333-374a-41ea-800d-c088a82c53a0.html
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Show threadThe Privacy DadMar 10

@eff The Lord of the Rings is not dystopian literature. It's fantasy.

Examples of dystopian literature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature

List of dystopian literature - Wikipedia

Show threadLukefromDCMar 11

@eff In the Lord of the Rings, Sauron loses and the Ring of Power goes into the Fire and is destroyed. I know those books very well myself.

Trump will lose too, and all the current techno-rings of power will burn in the fires of public fury.

As for the seeing stones or palantirs, NOBODY can use them privately as Gondor has some of them and Mordor others. Anything one side uses them to see, the other can seem them using.

It should not be too hard for some expert to hack Palantir and do the same in the real world.

Show threadtdotMar 11
@LukefromDC @eff Palantir has been hacked before, leaking its camera footage which you can probably still access now. That hasn't changed how people feel, you can look at Benn Jordan's youtube to see an example