A “Silicon Valley” actor is terrified by what’s happening in Silicon Valley
I think that a better look at this subject is a recent piece in The Atlantic titled, &quot;Are Facebook, Twitter, and Google American Companies?&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;are-facebook-twitter-and-google-american-companies&#x2F;544670&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;are-f...</a><p>tl;dr, this back-and-forth is unsettling to a Federalist:<p>&gt;In response to a tough line of questions from Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Twitter’s acting general counsel, Sean Edgett, gave two conflicting answers within a couple of minutes. Cotton pressed Edgett on Twitter’s decision to cut off the CIA’s access to alerts derived from the Twitter-data fire hose, which is provided through a company it partially owns, Dataminr, while the companies reportedly still allowed the Russian media outlet RT to continue using the service for some time.<p>&gt;“Do you see an equivalency between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Russian intelligence services?,” Cotton asked.<p>&gt;“We’re not offering our service for surveillance to any government,” Edgett responded.<p>&gt;“So you will apply the same policy to our intelligence community that you’d apply to an adversary’s intelligence services?,” Cotton asked again.<p>&gt;“As a global company, we have to apply our policies consistently,” Edgett replied.
“We’re trying to be unbiased around the world.”<p>&gt;Cotton then turned to WikiLeaks, which the Intelligence Committee has designated as a nonstate hostile intelligence agency, asking why it had been operating “uninhibited” on Twitter.<p>&gt;“Is it bias to side with America over our adversaries?,” Cotton demanded.<p>&gt;“We’re trying to be unbiased around the world,” Edgett said. “We’re obviously an American company and care deeply about the issues we’re talking about today, but as it relates to WikiLeaks or other accounts like it, we make sure they are in compliance with our policies just like every other account.”<p>I guess it is kind of cyberpunk-y. All we need now is for US Marshals to lay siege to some SF headquarters, facing contracted PMCs denying the validity of their warrants.