• ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca
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    3 months ago

    Are they fucking serious?

    When is the Tolkien estate going to sue all these companies like Palantir and shit for using LOTR names for weapons and surveillance systems meant to subjugate and kill people?

  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca
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    3 months ago

    Guys, we should all write to the Tolkien Estate to denounce the use of names from the Lord of the Rings for weapons and tools of mass surveillance. Let’s all write a letter condemning this and asking them to do something aboutit.

    The Tolkien Estate

    c/o Curtis Brown Heritage

    Cunard House

    15 Regent Street

    London

    SW1Y 4LR

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      One of the biggest US companies works closely with the US intelligence industry and DoD to provide them very in-depth surveillance, facial recognition, customer tracking via payment systems, and AI-assisted target acquisition systems and many highly concerning privacy-invading tools.

      They call themselves Palantir.

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      3 months ago

      Literally actually yes. Thiel and his ilk think Sauron just didn’t have enough focus on PR.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
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        3 months ago

        If Sauron had kept his objectives confined to within Germany he would have not been bad, it was just Sauron’s expansionist tendencies that made him “evil”.