[frozenport]

I'm pretty sure California companies like Google, Palantir, or Cisco will happily provided the technologies for a distopia suvalience state.

[jkelsey]

Well, stop looking to profit-focused corporations to take care of us and start using what democracy we've got left.

[golfer]

I'm surprised to see you lump Google in with Palantir, of all companies. Google has been fighting back against government overreach since the beginning.

They were the first internet company to publish a transparency report, for example [1]. Now copied by all the big players.

I remember them fighting back over a decade ago against government requests for search data, when others simply complied. [2]

[1] https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/?authuser=1

[2] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/response-to-doj-moti...

[ForHackernews]

> Google has been fighting back against government overreach since the beginning.

Hey, no fair! That's our panopticon, not yours!