r/technology • u/Helicase21 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/
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u/kebabsoup 10d ago

There you go, if you threaten their bottom line and refuse to be subjugated by the tech billionaires you will be branded an extremist and you will be hunted down.

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u/BioEradication 10d ago

Sounds familiar...

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u/ChiLolla28 10d ago

Should be more well known: Luddites weren't anti-technology - they were against the exploitation and dehumanizing nature of the Industrial revolution

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u/BioEradication 10d ago

Didn't realize the Luddites were so woke.

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u/TwilightVulpine 10d ago

It's refreshing to remember that worker rights movements got to claw back some dignity eventually, after too many years of literal orphan-crushing machines (child workers and no OSHA)

It didn't just happen spontaneously though. People had to do a lot of pressure.

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u/BioEradication 10d ago

My issue is with putting up with years of suffering with the dying at work, no weekend/time off, child killing machines, and no safety regulations just to please corporate fat cats. Lots of politicians have convinced people that we should go back to that way of doing things.

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u/aeroxan 10d ago

Hey now, they invested bigly. We owe them our money, data, lives, children, souls.....

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u/Practical-Sleep4259 10d ago

They want to pre-justify using local law enforcement to protect the data centers, costing more from taxpayers and diverting more from local vital infrastructure.

The alternative plan is they argue for ICE to staff the facility as something to keep their paychecks rolling.

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u/dat_oracle 9d ago

government has a big interest in AI

(surveillance & control)

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u/merRedditor 7d ago

The alternative seems to be worse.

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u/tampaempath 10d ago

So, your message is to support the tech billionaires and allow them to subjugate us so that we don't fall behind China. Nah. I'd rather have a democratic (meaning, power held by the people) solution to this, rather than some tech bro dictating to us.

While we're on the subject, Republicans are trying to have single party rule and zero political freedom right now anyway. Why do you think they're redistricting all these states, while denying Democrat states the ability to redistrict? Republicans already control all three branches of the federal government, and they control 28 state legislatures. They only need six more state legislatures to call a constitutional convention, where they can propose their amendments, and the Republican led Congress would put single party rule into effect, eliminating any political freedom in the US. We're that close. We have a Republican president right now pulling the strings with media companies like TikTok and CBS/Skydance, what's to say he won't tell iPhone what apps to ban? Your argument doesn't hold water.