By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026Which brings me back to Snowden. The Snowden revelations *did* spur a global conversation about digital surveillance, with the result that the majority of the world's digital traffic is encrypted today. That's not nothing. 61/ 11438
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026But the American state found new ways to conduct mass-scale, global surveillance, often by collaborating directly with tech giants. 62/ 11214
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026Billionaires like Peter Thiel capitalized on Big Tech's conflicted feelings about openly participating in surveillance by founding Palantir, with the express mission of murdering the political opponents of oligarchy: www.thecanary.co/trending/202... 63/thecanary.coUK private contractor Palantir was 'founded to kill communists'The UK government's relationship with Palantir was already controversial, now it looks positively genocidal 217952
