Surveillance Valley

[Punk-Stasi 2.0]

grarpamp wrote 

> Surveillance Valley - Yasha Levine
> infohash:6440FAC0D1D9D8EBE3FF24B084B58551CF5BC3B5

and better than torrent 

ed2k://|file|Levine,%202018,%20Surveillance%20Valley.epub|2242524|F5A293AE6F437418BDE2215481114462|/

quote : 

"Students saw Cambridge Project, and the bigger ARPANET that plugged into it, as a weapon. A pamphlet handed out at the MIT protest explained: “The whole computer set-up and the ARPA computer network will enable the government, for the first time, to consult relevant survey data rapidly enough to be used in policy decisions. The net result of this will be to make Washington’s international policeman more effective in suppressing popular movements around the world. The so-called basic research to be supported by Project CAM will deal with questions like why do peasant movements or student groups become revolutionary. The results of this research will similarly be used to suppress progressive movements.” Another booklet featured a mock advertisement that gave a visual representation to these fears. It featured “The Octoputer,” a computer shaped like an octopus that had tentacles reaching into every sector of society. “The Octoputer’s arms are long and strong,” read the mock ad copy. “It sits in the middle of your university, country and reaches helping hands out in all directions. Suddenly your empire works harder. More of your agents use the computer—solving more problems, finding more facts.”71

To activists, ARPA’s Cambridge Project was part of a networked system of surveillance, political control, and military conquest being quietly assembled by diligent researchers and engineers at college campuses around the country."

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compare that to the idiotic views of people like hammill and other 'optimistic' technocratic 'libertarians'...