I Used to Work for Google. I Am a Conscientious Objector. - American companies continue to build surveillance tools that are used to violate human rights. Workers who refuse to comply deserve protections.

They don't deserve protections; they can simply find another job. Ultimately, though, the military is going to have to do way more to make Army Civilian roles as attractive as possible so they can hire people who might otherwise work at Google / radically reform the training and recruiting and retention pipeline around Cyber to develop a genuinely military technical capacity - one that is operationally organized, subject to UCMJ, and does not intend to 'support' a mission, but be its primary executors.

Hah, lobbyists won't that happen and politicians want their bribes. The military won't be allowed to suddenly stop needing private wasteful overbudget contracts.

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