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Critics blast tech sector's 'national security' fixation

Original: The # technology sector has developed an exquisitely overblown and grandiloquent fixation on "security" and especially "

A commentator has accused the technology industry of an exaggerated, rhetorical obsession with "security" and especially "national security," comparing the language to Reagan-era Cold War framing. The post argues that such rhetoric is used to justify belligerence and repression, drawing a direct link between the industry's security discourse and far-right politics in the United States.

Why now: Ongoing debate about how national security arguments are used to justify tech industry policies and government repression

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• The # technology sector has developed an exquisitely overblown and grandiloquent fixation on "security" and especially "national security" in the Reaganite War-is-Peace sense. The GOP fascists like all fascists strike the pose that all the belligerence and repression is… · mxchara@cyberpunk.lol · 2

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