I'm sure there's a way for Silicon Valley and the US government to work together, but Silicon Valley can and should bring it's own demands to the negotiating table. This looks like a very one sided deal right now. The government gets to keep its secret courts, mass surveillance, secret drone strikes and foreign policy interference and expects the brightest and best minds in tech to sign up to facilitate all that.
No deal. There is another way. I'm sure many in tech would take up the gauntlet of protecting all people if it were to be executed in a way that fits with the ideals of those people - which coincidentally align pretty well with what the US Constitution and Bill of Rights put forth 223 years ago.
If the US wants security they can have it. If they want to continue to expand the military industrial complex, they should go looking elsewhere.
I'm sure there's a way for Silicon Valley and the US government to work together, but Silicon Valley can and should bring it's own demands to the negotiating table.
I don't exactly trust the policy positions of the handful of major corporations that rate on the White House's radar to be beneficial to the end user/society in general.
Not only that, but there is simply zero confidence in negotiation with the government and you are a fool to believe anything else. You don't even have to rely on echos and messages from ancestors and predecessors, with general warnings about the abuses of the power of governance in the hands of humans; you can just look at the last few years of all the deception, all the abuses, all the killing, all the thieving, all the protection of thieves, and pilfering of civil society, and all the lies. There is absolutely zero trust or confidence to be found. Unfortunately for the government and any government, its track-record is permanent, there are no re-dos without revolution. Once the image, once the record has been sullied in the most grotesque and lazy manner in which it has been for the last 15 years+ there is simply no going back. The damage is permanent, irreplaceable, and immutable.
You had one chance and choice on 9/12/2001, government; and you chose to play right into the hands and goals of the tactic of terrorism ... turning on your own people and sacrificing your principles at the cost of vanquishing the tenuous and feeble trust civil society had placed in you.
Maybe you will be successful in steering the massive ship and changing perceptions and molding society as you have before in the past, government. But for now, there is a lot of trust to be made up through apology, action, and prosecuting perpetrators, i.e., showing that your actions are not just more empty promises and lies that any other run of the mill addict uses to avoid accountability for their actions and impacts on those in their lives.
No deal. There is another way. I'm sure many in tech would take up the gauntlet of protecting all people if it were to be executed in a way that fits with the ideals of those people - which coincidentally align pretty well with what the US Constitution and Bill of Rights put forth 223 years ago.
If the US wants security they can have it. If they want to continue to expand the military industrial complex, they should go looking elsewhere.