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> Think of what would happen if you tried to make your average Silicon Valley dev team design, implement, and test a surveillance system they didn't want to build and that was immoral.

It wouldn't be that. It would be defense contractors sitting at Lockheed or a few blocks from DARPA whose daily bread is making a Tech Sandwich whenever the Broad Agency Announcement for one shows up on sam.gov, or on the DARPA page, or the variety of procurement sites that the government doesn't expose to the internet. If they want it, they can get it -- no persuasion of liberal tech-bros needed.