Surveillance Valley¶
Metadata¶
- Author: Yasha Levine
- ASIN: B01N809DBM
- ISBN: 1610398025
- Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N809DBM
- Kindle link
Highlights¶
ARPA’s entire Project Agile apparatus was a giant racket used by military planners to give scientific cover to whichever existing war policies they were intent on pursuing. — location: 534 ^ref-55682
fraud. The only people benefiting from Project Agile were the private military contracting firms hired to do the work. — location: 536 ^ref-14343
Looking back on it now, with full knowledge of the history of the Internet, I can’t help but marvel at the transformation. It’s as weird as waking up and seeing hippies marching for the military draft. — location: 1610 ^ref-33723
The Internet is perhaps one of the most valuable public inventions of the twentieth century, and decisions made by a few key unelected officials in the federal bureaucracy set the Internet on the certain path to privatization. There was no real public debate, no discussion, no dissension, and no oversight. It was just given away, before anyone outside this bureaucratic bubble realized what was at stake. — location: 1892 ^ref-22811
The ARPANET was first used to spy on Americans in 1972, when it was employed to transfer surveillance files on antiwar protesters and civil rights leaders that the US Army had collected. — location: 3011 ^ref-40000
the entire landscape of this new Internet Freedom privacy movement looked absurd. Cold War–era organizations spun off from the CIA now funding the global movement against government surveillance? — location: 4195 ^ref-53870
the NSA saw Tor as a honeypot. — location: 4292 ^ref-60102
The bigger lesson of Snowden’s NSA cache was that almost nothing happened on the Internet without passing through some kind of US government — location: 4303 ^ref-58471
Not all surveillance is bad. Without them, there can be no democratic oversight of society. — location: 4423 ^ref-4990
surveillance and control are not problems in and of themselves. How they are used depends on our politics and political culture. — location: 4425 ^ref-38334
Murray advised the opposite: harsher prison terms and punitive zero-tolerance measures to deter crime as well as abolishing all government social programs, including food stamps, welfare, and the Social Security pension system (“Prison Called Best Treatment for Juvenile Offenders,” Associated Press, November 1, 1979, — location: 4626 ^ref-58232
much of the research tested in Vietnam, was ineffective at achieving its stated goal. Instead of decreasing joblessness and alleviating poverty, these reforms plunged minority communities into even more suffering and impoverishment — location: 4636 ^ref-63367