Sam Seder
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The Real Reason DARPA Created The Internet
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May 29, 2018
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10:26Now PlayingIn this Majority Report clip, it sucks when you think your government spent your tax dollars on something cool and beneficial to the world, but then it turns out it was all just a new way to track and kill communists around the world for the benefit of capitalist oligarchs.
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"A reporter unearths the true history of the internet: it was built by the government to spy on citizens, at home and abroad.
In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine traces the history of the internet back to its beginnings as a Vietnam-era tool for spying on guerrilla fighters and antiwar protesters–a military computer networking project that ultimately envisioned the creation of a global system of surveillance and prediction. Levine shows how the same military objectives that drove the development of early internet technology are still at the heart of Silicon Valley today. Spies, counterinsurgency campaigns, hippie entrepreneurs, privacy apps funded by the CIA. From the 1960s to the 2010s — this revelatory and sweeping story will make you reconsider what you know about the most powerful, ubiquitous tool ever created."*
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