@eff

I remember that it wasn't that long ago when democracies worried that communism would achieve international ubiquitous surveillance...

... now, when the fossil fuel industry & its financiers fund those same international ubiquitous surveillance capabilities, democracies yield to oligarchs owned by petrostate despots & oil oligarchs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/

https://medium.com/predict/musks-ties-to-putin-laid-bare-2d0b0568a42e

https://www.thewrap.com/russian-oligarchs-elon-musk-x-investors-putin/

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/putins-henchmen-helped-musk-to-acquire-twitter-reports-381664/

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/10/14/ukraine-accuses-elon-musks-spacex-of-throttling-starlink-terminals

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187