This isn’t new. Check out Yasha Levine’s Surveillance Valley. It’s a nice primer. Most of our internet tech was built for the military or funded by the military for military ideas (no matter what MIT or Berkeley theoreticians might try to convince you of).
I imagine some level of worker protection may be required to see success in this.
Seems like depending on what you bring to light you’re at best let go into a brutal job market. Or if you piss off Boeing you just die.
This is the military. You’ll just go straight to federal prison.
Tech workers need to unionize
I’ve been saying this pretty much since I started working in tech in 2005.
They paid too well for a while and gave nice lunches and free lattes while sucking 60-70 hours per week out if us.
I quit and fix cars now with hardly any retirement funds and shit health and dental care.
There are no more perks, just the soul crushing work.
I feel like they would need protection from sudden onset suicidality first.
No way in hell would I do that if I had that kind of knowledge. Look what happened to Snowden for doing something like that.
He would still spend the remainder of his life in federal prison or be executed if he ever steps back on US soil or the soil of someone with an extradition treaty that is looking to get some brownie points.
That wouldn’t happen to all of them, but I bet you there are some working on some classified mess that would be found and made an example of in short order to shut the others up.
