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... Did you see what happened in Afganistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria, South America?

... Did you hear about the torture, black sites, global surveillance, drone assassinations, and censorship?

... Did you see what happened to the people who blew the whistle on this stuff?

And you're not ashamed to play a part in this? Is there some line they haven't crossed yet that would do it for you?



I think we should all be concerned about the fact that the invasion of Iraq was justified using false intelligence, mostly from using areal photography which were grossly—and probably purposefully—misinterpreted to show weapon systems that simply weren’t there.

With greater network of more powerful imaging systems and an even greater computational power and statistical methods which can interpret this massive data in any way you want, this indeed becomes really dangerous. We have seen that states are still willing to lie grossly in order to justify terrible human tragedies (e.g. the Russian invasion into Ukraine had an equally false premise). So we should probably be increasingly wary of how governments use these systems.

In contrast when space infrastructure first became viable, one of the first thing the international community did was to sign an agreement promising not to use it to carry weapons[1]. I would like us to do something similar now as we enter this new era of space communication and unmanned semi-autonomous weapons systems.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty




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