1. Silicon Valley libertarians are incredibly angry about this story on Google/Apple's posture on their pandemic tracing app.https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/15/app-apple-google-virus/ …
I don't know his opinion on the unlocking issue (other than the brief mention in the tweet), I'm referring specifically to his remarks on the role of monopoly power in public health surveillance
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do you think they should use their monopoly power to surveil, or to not surveil? In the absence of affirmative public policy it’s all just private choices of monopolists
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I don't know how to formulate a tweet-length answer to this. What it comes down to is, we have an unregulated surveillance-based economy up and running, let's not ignore its existence the one time it might prove socially useful. Relevant thing I wrote: https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm …
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