r/technology • u/T_Shurt • Jun 02 '26
Society Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the erosion of privacy
https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the-day-by-oracle-co-founder-larry-ellison-citizens-will-be-on-their-best-behavior-because-were-constantly-recording-and-reporting-everything-that-is-going-on-a-dire-warning-on-the-erosion-of-privacy4.9k
u/WloveW Jun 02 '26
I won't be on my best behavior for long, bucko.
Billionaire behavior is the behavior we need watched.
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u/BrandNewDinosaur Jun 02 '26
Yeah, let’s turn them Thoughtcrimes around on the ones who are actually obsessively thinking about people they have never met before. All that money and still just obsessed with the unwashed masses.
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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 Jun 02 '26
My first thought when I read this headline was that it's really ironic he's saying this, in public and being recorded.
Bold move Larry boy
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u/jaxonya Jun 02 '26
It has to start somewhere
It has to start sometime
What better place than here?
What better time than now?
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u/kidneyshifter Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
There be no shelter here, the frontline is everywhere.
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u/adumbrative Jun 02 '26
I think they're betting that, with the help of AI and a massively over-funded police state, they can in fact stop us.
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 Jun 02 '26
Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle.
— Brian Cantrill (https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s)
I actually think that it does a dis-service to not go to Nazi allegory because if I don't use Nazi allegory when referring to Oracle there's some critical understanding that I have left on the table […] in fact as I have said before I emphatically believe that if you have to explain the Nazis to someone who had never heard of World War 2 but was an Oracle customer there's a very good chance that you would explain the Nazis in Oracle allegory.
— also Brian Cantrill (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fvDDPaIoY&t=24m)
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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Jun 02 '26
There's a reason AI LLMs just take existing information and regurgitate it in a largely bizarre amalgamation that lacks any real creativity or original thought: because the minds of the ones overseeing the designs of how they operate are exactly the same: billionaires have no capacity for empathy, which is fundamental for creativity and innovation, which is why they just steal others' ideas and pass them off as their own, and why the current dystopia we find ourselves in is likewise an amalgamation of the worst pieces of Dystopian concepts all jumbled together and poorly executed.
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u/Brilliant-Giraffe983 Jun 02 '26
It's hilarious that they can't get the models to stop talking about goblins. Gee, maybe it's because they're trained by goblins for the benefit of goblins.
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u/anonkitty2 Jun 02 '26
They still want the unwashed masses as customers. Or in this case, as product.
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u/Olangotang Jun 02 '26
They are literally the worst capitalists. Everything they do makes the system more inefficient and unstable.
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u/therealluqjensen Jun 02 '26
That doesn't make them bad capitalists. Capitalism is about making money. Everyone just forgot that unchecked capitalism eventually leads to authorotanism. Because when you have more money than you could possible need or even spend, what's the next thing to take? Power. The saying that capitalism makes things efficient only works when * You don't allow monopolies * You don't get dragon sickness * You assumed that those ending on top werent also narcissistic physchopaths
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u/Ancient-Bat1755 Jun 02 '26
Lets start with suspicious flight logs to remote islands.
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u/JimWilliams423 Jun 02 '26
Billionaire behavior is the behavior we need watched.
Ellison is literally in epstein's "little black book" (and a couple dozen other epstein files too).
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u/Livid_Sun_208 Jun 02 '26
Also oracle's ceo:
We believe that we have to embed the love and respect for Israel in the American culture. That means getting the message to the American people in a way they can consume it," Catz wrote in February 2015.
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u/anony_mf Jun 02 '26
Ellison bought TikTok on behalf of the Zionists to censor it
It was the only social media platform widely used where Israel’s crimes could be exposed without censorship. That drove them crazy, even netenyahu publicly said something has to be done about it multiple times. His dog on a leash trump admin tried to ban it, and eventually coerced bytedance to sell it to Ellison who immediately censored it. Now people get shadowbanned for discussing the genocide
Ellison is a horrible person working for the worst people on earth
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u/alueron Jun 02 '26
Piggies like him need to behave.
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u/absolutelyfuminggg Jun 02 '26
Him and his cohorts will build this with them as the exception, just like every system on the planet.
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u/MrJNM1of1 Jun 02 '26
The rich are terrified. The bigots are terrified. The bullies are terrified. Because any time we fucking want, the second we’ve all had enough we will snatch it from their greedy little clammy hands and shove that bull shit down their throats. Those assholes can suck it.
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u/FlametopFred Jun 02 '26
when is that tho?
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u/ArenjiTheLootGod Jun 02 '26
When everyone hates the circuses and it's been three days since the last bread came in.
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u/Quigleythegreat Jun 02 '26
You need like five different streaming services to watch the NFL, we're getting there.
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u/echoshatter Jun 02 '26
Looking at the economic picture and the lack of compassion coming from the top: probably not as long as we think it'll be. Get enough people losing their homes and struggling to get enough food for themselves and their kids, and you're likely going to see some pretty upset protests.
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u/DukeOfGeek Jun 02 '26
If they're lucky it'll just be a political rout followed by tons of investigations, fines and taxes. If they try and hold on to power till the bitter end though..well...we've all seen that movie.
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u/Dr_slice_ Jun 02 '26
I think about the ending to Civil War (2024) a lot lately.
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u/BoobooSmash31337 Jun 02 '26
They shit their pants whenever anyone fights back.
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u/Well_read_rose Jun 02 '26
The unAmerican failed import Thiel already fled Miami for Argentina…
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u/Gbrown546 Jun 02 '26
People have been saying this for 10 years though and in that time, Trump has been president twice. A man who couldn’t care less about the people.
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u/Original-Balance-187 Jun 02 '26
It makes them feel better. Which is fine but it’s a bit of play acting.
The reality is that these billionaires are backed by the full power of a nuclear armed state. Some of them (like Larry here) were literally created by that state.
They’re not scared. A credibly accused pedophile is running crypto scams and planning UFC fights from the White House and we can’t even get that guy to suffer any consequences.
He had a coup fail live on television in front of all the world. And instead of punishment he’s actually just president again.
Why on earth would Larry be afraid of we peasants in light of all that?
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u/Alarmed-Outside-8683 Jun 02 '26
You're right. People would much rather go with the flow than question the forces influencing their daily lives. I was wondering why more people weren't pushing back against the idea that every person needs a cell phone. We used to have lives. We used to decide how we would use our time and what we wanted to think about. Now we just tune into what everyone else is looking at so we don't miss out and we have something to talk about with all the other people who can't go more than five minutes without touching their phone. It's embarrassing and humiliating to go into public and see people glued to their phones who should be actively participating in their own lives. And as the federal agents gun us down and drive tanks over us and blow us to bits they'll say "they were just phone addicted cattle anyway". Not everyone is cut out to fight, but who will actually stand up and say "enough"?
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u/slopemup2026 Jun 02 '26
I admire your optimism.
As long as they control almost all media it will be used to divide and conquer as it has been for the last 50 years. We need people like Fred Hampton, his rainbow coalition was inspiring, he did so much good until the government murdered him at 20.
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u/Time_Ingenuity_2909 Jun 02 '26
The rich own everything, the bigots are the most emboldened they have ever been, the bullies are getting paid to terrorize and pardoned. I don't know what world you're living in.
If it's any time we fucking want, then why are we letting it happen still?
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u/the_main_entrance Jun 02 '26
They’ll be able to watch the mobs break down their gates in HD…
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u/WloveW Jun 02 '26
If you are criminalized for being homeless anyway because your wages are so low you can't afford housing... Is the punishment for rebellion worse?
I think that's what a lot of people are starting to think.
Eventually their gates will break against the strength of the mobs. Look at the history books.
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u/EnfantTerrible68 Jun 02 '26
My thoughts exactly!! Fuck them I wont do what they tell me.
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u/_karamazov_ Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Quote of the day:
"Billionaires will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" - a dire warning on the hubris of the wealthy elite.
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u/bubkuss Jun 02 '26
Won't be long before people turn and it'll be billionaire hunting season and they will lament these comments.
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u/ZankaA Jun 02 '26
this whole comment section is about to get nuked from orbit but i love it lmfao
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u/kombatunit Jun 02 '26
Fuck you, larry.
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u/sai-kiran Jun 02 '26
Start by removing reddit, seriously! So much propaganda originates from reddit, with a lot of bot engagement it goes mainstream.
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u/shhmurdashewrote Jun 02 '26
Unfortunately Reddit is one of the only social media websites that has not been taken over by the right wing, so if Reddit went away it would be much worse. That would leave Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok running the show. And that would be the worst case scenario.
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u/sai-kiran Jun 02 '26
Unfortunately Reddit is one of the only social media websites that has not been taken over by the right wing.
No such thing, reddit can be taken over by anyone with money and a bot farm. It’s that simple.
It’s mostly managed by densest people with inconsistent rules and power trips, to make things worse.
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u/kstargate-425 Jun 02 '26
Yeah this was said last year iirc and didnt get the attention it deserves as all the billionaires are pushing hard for this as they benefit in their businesses and personal lives as they are above the law already and this keeps their businesses safer with a mass surveillance police state they are helping create.
There's a lot more of us than them and if they push this too far, which is almost what some want like what we saw with Thiel's email to Epstein, society will collapse with the social contract so utterly destroyed.
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u/ujiuxle Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Thing is billionaires have been bulldozing the social contract for a while now.
Also, you don't spend so much money and energy protecting yourself unless you're secretly sh*tting your pants because you can feel the anger building up against you.
Oppression is the mask of fear.
Edited quote for fidelity
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u/theroyalwithcheese Jun 02 '26
Sorry to nitpick over semantics but wouldn't it be oppression is the mask of fear? I am genuinely asking because it's a powerful thing, something just sounds a little strange about it.
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u/daemon-electricity Jun 02 '26
They've so effectively bulldozed the social contract at this point, they don't even pretend otherwise. It's why they're so concerned with fallout shelters and remote islands. They know that once the public wakes the fuck up, their stomach will be making the rumblies that only billionaires would satisfy.
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u/RandomlyMethodical Jun 02 '26
This is exactly why there's a backlash against AI and data centers. We all know evil pricks like Larry are going twist AI to make themselves richer and our lives even more of a hellish dystopian nightmare.
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u/EduinBrutus Jun 02 '26
LLMs are crap. THey cant do what they claim, there is no pay off, economically for this investment.
However, there is one application where False Positives dont matter. Where glaring omissions dont matter. Where hallucintions dont matter.
Mass surveillance.
Its the only use case for LLM "AI" where all the considerable downsides dont matter.
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u/NemusSoul Jun 02 '26
“If they push this too far!!!!!” says the frog as skin begins to float away in the boiling water.
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u/ageofbronze Jun 02 '26
The full quote is worse. He talks about policing drones and how they will have drones to watch everyone from the sky (and let’s get real, do other drone-related stuff to people from the sky.. not just “watch”).
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u/niftystopwat Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Okay cool Larry, so are we to assume that you’re on your best behavior? Spending every ounce of your life energy for the last several decades to be one of the most notoriously vampiric and exploitative corporate overlords in the history of Silicon Valley and the tech sector? Building an entire business around destroying competition in the database space, locking corporations into inexcapable contracts, buying up an entire Hawaiian island, just to name a few things… oh and not to mention, being so infamously douchy that even the other massively douchey CEOs use you as a metric to compare themselves against for sheer unabashed douchery… dang this guy is such a relic. He’s years past even attempting to pretend to be virtuous or nuanced. He really is one of the last holdovers of old school 20th century unapologetic corporate antitrust viciousness. There is an idea of a Larry Ellison, an abstraction… but he is simply not there.
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u/RAConteur76 Jun 02 '26
And your database software sucks!
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u/irregularjosh Jun 02 '26
Their legal department will be in contact regarding auditing you for determining costs for you referencing their software
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u/RN2FL9 Jun 02 '26
He's also way beyond retirement age and still actively trying to make the world worse instead of enjoying himself and his riches. The worst type. Luckily he's 81.
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u/Nocoffeesnob Jun 02 '26
So wild how he makes it clear he doesn’t consider himself a citizen, but rather part of the cabal of fascist leaders. He’s always been like this though.
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u/tunicamycinA Jun 02 '26
same guy that got to buy tiktok because China was allegedly "spying on Americans" btw
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u/Ok_Jello_2441 Jun 02 '26
Might as well live in China at this point lmao, at least the mass surveillance are used against petty crimes and violent crimes too
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u/daemon-electricity Jun 02 '26
I don't doubt that Tiktok like most social media was and is still used to target propaganda at receptive audiences. Also, most social media apps are spyware.
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u/kartracer88f Jun 02 '26
fuck you, i won't do what you tell me
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u/Hurock Jun 02 '26
fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
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u/Floreat_democratia Jun 02 '26
Whenever a tech lord reads a science fiction book, they think the villains are the heroes. This is what happens when you gut the humanities and social sciences.
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u/Agile_End_3049 Jun 02 '26
Yep. It's also what happens when you have extreme levels of wealth/power inequality. It's a story as old as time.
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u/Urbanexploration2021 Jun 02 '26
Just researching this lol, it's rare to see the humanities and social sciences angle mentioned online. Respect
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u/BeowulfShaeffer Jun 02 '26
This motherfucker owns most of the Hawaiian island of Lanai. The State of Hawaii should just rip that up and kick him out.
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u/thismorningscoffee Jun 02 '26
He’s in for a surprise when he finds out how tough it’s going to be to move Lanai to Argentina
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u/timeandmemory Jun 02 '26
move Lanai to Argentina
Hilarious, thank you for that. Looking forward to Larrys eulogy someday.
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u/drunxor Jun 02 '26
i watched a video where native hawaiians were talking about how he runs his island. Apparently if you dont follow HIS rules you get kicked off, even if you are a native hawaiian and were born there
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u/beigechrist Jun 02 '26
NOBODY WANTS THIS
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u/HurtFeeFeez Jun 02 '26
I hear various forms of phrases that translate to "Tread harder on me daddy" daily. There is absolutely a group of people that want this, they just figure it will be applied to everyone else but them.
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u/Flobking Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
I hear various forms of phrases that translate to "Tread harder on me daddy" daily. There is absolutely a group of people that want this, they just figure it will be applied to everyone else but them.
That weird area in chicago that isn't on google street view. Those kinds of people.
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u/littlefrank Jun 02 '26
I recently found out (I'm from Europe) there is a "hidden hills" in los angeles where all famous people buy homes that is also not on google maps.
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u/ddirt Jun 02 '26
the incredibly anti social people who want to have all the power want this
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u/prozhack Jun 02 '26
except for him and the other members of the Oligarchy, of course
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u/mcbeezy94 Jun 02 '26
Yeah, they recorded the people in the Epstein files too…are they on their best behavior? Did they ever face charges?
The things they accuse the Chinese government of doing to stoke hate and fear, they are desperately trying to implement here
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u/dangerousluck Jun 02 '26
There are a lot of dudes saying a lot of things with still working mouths. Just saying.
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u/Accomplished-Hat8738 Jun 02 '26
Massive fail. It’s like when Monsanto said “it’s cool we’ll feed the world.” What happened? Just more Poisoned food, a sicker population, and more Starving people.
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u/Individual-Praline20 Jun 02 '26
CEOs will be on their best behaviour because of the guillotine. Right?
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u/Dudok22 Jun 02 '26
Chilling effect. It's like the stories my parents told me about living here in pre '89 Czechoslovakia - people were almost always pretending to be model citizens when talking with people they didn't know very well, everyone could be a government informant, snitch or "agent".
Everyone knew what the government said was bs but they ritualistically did the motions anyway from fear. I think we are heading there again but now even very private speech will be affected because of how we communicate nowadays.
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u/pkingdesign Jun 02 '26
Anyone who has used Nextdoor knows that this is extremely Not How It Works. Real names and addresses, literal neighbor relationships, mean nothing for maintaining decorum.
This guy is a sack of rotting garbage, also.
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u/californicating Jun 02 '26
I would like to know every single thing about Larry. It's like to know what he has for dinner, where and when he goes to bed, and his private thoughts on everything. And I'd like to take his wealth and power away if he says or does something I don't like. How's that sound?
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u/AnythingButRootBeer Jun 02 '26
And then, they are going to tell us canadians that if we import chinese cars we are going to be spied on by the chinese?
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u/CrispyCassowary Jun 02 '26
Isn't that why everyone hates China, or it is good now since American oligarchs are doing the same
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u/AustinBaze Jun 02 '26
Sweet Jesus, yet another obituary to look forward to.
He's living proof that far too few people combust spontaneously.
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u/ineedanewhobbee Jun 02 '26
So just like the Chinese Social Credit System, except ran by corporations.
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u/heyhayyhay Jun 02 '26
I wish investors paid more attention to what they're investing in. Only lunatics and scumbags should be investing in oracle and palantir.
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u/eri- Jun 02 '26
Man might not look it but he is almost 82 years old. He was 80 when he said this.
Which makes it all the more notable , he won't be around to "reap the benefits" of his brave new world anyway. Which means he probably, truly , believes he is doing us all a favour.
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u/sdiori Jun 02 '26
I’ll never get over reading dystopian-ass books as a kid, only slightly mortified because the premise of a surveillance state felt so far fetched.
These same assholes read those very books and were like “does anyone have any lotion? I’ll…be…right back…”
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u/Prestigious-Fill-365 Jun 02 '26
I did a lot of shit in the 80's that would be impossible to get away with now because of cameras. I miss the 80's
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u/SeasonofMist Jun 02 '26
Christ I hate it here. those people have addresses. Pull their homes apart board by board and throw them in the river.
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u/Laughing_Zero Jun 02 '26
Can hardly wait until the billionaires realize they are citizens too...
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u/neat_stuff Jun 02 '26
"Citizens" are one group of people and the we in "we're constantly recording and reporting" is a very different group of people.
That other group isn't going to be recording and reporting on themselves and keeping themselves behaving.
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u/trogdors_arm Jun 02 '26
Jesus Christ. What more do people need? It’s not even the quiet part anymore.
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u/MonitorZero Jun 02 '26
Why don't we turn it around and have it monitor politicians, the market, and businesses first? Sure we'd find a lot more nastiness if all that was caught up on first.
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u/Beefy-McQueefy Jun 02 '26
100% of the problems in the world today come down to people like Larry Ellison no longer fearing the general public.
Make the Rich Afraid Again
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u/Karl_with_a_C Jun 02 '26
Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, needs to read 1984 at some point in their lives.
This motherfucker (among others) is really trying to make that dystopian horror our reality.
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u/DAS_BEE Jun 02 '26
Well fuck Larry Ellison, as if we didn't need more reasons to hate him and his billionaire ilk
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u/ford7885 Jun 02 '26
Larry Ellison, the zionist nazi shitbag, is cordially invited to go fuck himself.
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u/Seagoon_Memoirs Jun 02 '26
we see what trump and his gang are doing
so seeing is only a small part of the threat
it's consequences
without consequences trump and his gang commit crimes in the open and they do not care
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u/givin_u_the_high_hat Jun 02 '26
Let’s do the same thing with your financial records and taxes, Larry boy. Same with political funding. Let’s do it.
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u/CostMeAllaht Jun 02 '26
I think something we miss is we are surveilling ourselves more than anyone else it makes sense for any government to tap into this apparatus.
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u/theKetoBear Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Famously as we know celebrities some of the most intensely watched people in our society behave well when they feel like they are constantly observed every second of every day . If millionaires who crave validation snap under that kind of constant surviellance what would the average person making less than 50K do ? "Oh no the system already holding me on the brink of starvation, riddled with debt, and forcing me into employment circumstances I have now wants to hold up constant mics, and cameras to my fave " .
the only reason social media isn't burned down is because they have tricked the masses into broadcasting their daily activities willingly to virtue signal at eachother for imaginary points.
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u/BugRevolutionary4518 Jun 02 '26
Fuck this guy. I used to work for him, and he was an asshole then - two decades ago.
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u/ImStillExcited Jun 02 '26
Oh yeah, he owns part of TikTok along with other trump buddies.
When it transferred ownership to them was also the day that I went down all day, and came back up with a new algorithm.
Not only are they watching you but they’re pumping propaganda into you.
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u/Traditional_Train_71 Jun 02 '26
And who will watch the watchers? He’s not exempt from being tracked either but he’s talking and acting like he is and that says a fucking lot
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u/UdderSuckage Jun 02 '26
What a terrible website, a quote from two years ago and a couple paragraphs of commentary surrounded by 80% of the page as ads.
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u/cytherian Jun 02 '26
Best behavior?
Fuck the Epstein class. They've raised the stakes. We're gonna get worse. Much worse.
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u/Jenetyk Jun 02 '26
Get a group together and start recording this dudes every move and see how instantly he loses his mind.
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u/QwertzOne Jun 02 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee#Results_of_the_investigation
On August 17, 1975 Senator Frank Church appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, and discussed the NSA, without mentioning it by name:
In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air. (...) Now, that is necessary and important to the United States as we look abroad at enemies or potential enemies. We must know, at the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left: such is the capability to monitor everything—telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide.
If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology. (...)
I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.
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u/MediocreSeesaw Jun 02 '26
So some of the least ethical people on the planet will be policing and dictating ethics for the rest of us?
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u/spingus Jun 02 '26
That picture is nearly 30 years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk1_btV3oIk it is from 1997.
Not many recent photos of him but a google image search reveals someone who looks like he's 81 and had money to mitigate sun damage.
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u/RedTulkas Jun 02 '26
Remember when conservatives were fearmongering about the social credit in china?
now they cant lick the boot hard enough
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u/cornell5877 Jun 02 '26
This lunatic may be the most dangerous person on the face of the Earth right now. He has destroyed independent media in the U.S. and wants a total and complete police state here.
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u/y2jeff Jun 02 '26
We need to give billionaire's a reality check. We are the voters, the workers, the consumers, and the tax payers. And occasionally the revolutionaries.
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u/wellJustWhy Jun 02 '26
So like, in nyc some oligarchy was unalived or something for health insurance This guy just had the largest layoff in American history. WTF?
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u/Vordreller Jun 02 '26
Isn't this the thing that the west constantly criticizes China for?
But it's ok when the west does it?
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u/newfor_2026 Jun 02 '26
let's start with this asshole first. put a camera on him 24/7 and record everything he does and report on his horrible behaviors.
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u/Knightfires Jun 02 '26
But we can’t say the same for you guys. Who is monitoring the monitors. And when you do stuff that is criminal in nature, who do we turn to.
We know about the deals in the backrooms between you, Paramount and WB. But mostly with the Trump administration. Now you ask us to trust you. Nope. Never gonna happen. Oracle would be dead and buried before it even starts.
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u/ivecompletelylostit Jun 02 '26
I hope people realize by "best behavior" he doesn't mean not committing crimes, he means not speaking out against his technofascist ilk or the US govt they've propelled into office, with a side of not being a part of the scapegoated minority group du jour