This has big "I voted the general election in three states and then complained about voting security on Fox News" energy.
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"you guys screw me out of thirteen or fourteen more Kickstarter funding rounds and I'll take my business elsewhere!"
- SC funders
He is being propped up by Saudi investors, which are aligned with Russians on more fronts than one.
Don't think for a second that his wealth is connected to the success of his businesses, never was. It's always been connected to his investors. His investors own him. His investors are the Saudis.
Musk is America's new 9/11, just, in slow and prolonged motion. Same money, same people behind it.
Am I supposed to be upset? I'm not. Grow up dude you're not that cool.
You're not a tech bro. You're not a venture capitalist. You're a sys admin. That's not a tech bro, and depending on your industry it might not really even be the tech industry. Shit, frozen burrito companies need sys admins. They're not the tech industry.
Your know your history is public yeah? You sit and play video games all day. Fifteen pages of video game commentary, and not high level stuff either. Just basic "I play these aren't they fun" commentary. Believe me, you're not special or unique, you're an open book that can be read from twenty feet away.
So yeah, I'm pretty sure I can say with confidence you're not some venture capitalist speaking for other venture capitalists, kiddo. Dream on. Those guys wouldn't sit at the same table with you.
"working in tech" is a very different thing than "working among vc startups". Tech bros is a perjorative that refers to the latter. I've worked as a software developer for nearing on two decades, but I've stayed far far from the vc startup world. They are two wholly different things.
So unless you think of yourself as "a tech bro" (which if you do, that's weird, because it is a perjorative), then yeah. You understand exactly, based on your experience. I bet you don't work among the vc startup crew that dominates mainstream tech news. Most of us don't.
I’m surprised the FBI wouldn’t have a master key for each manufacturer.
AT&T anyone?
For the uninformed. If you think that a safe manufacturer providing a master key directly to law enforcement would be "a step too far" I invite you to click the link below.
Security is mostly theater. So Privacy is mostly theater.
Tech bros aren't typically progressives any more than green party candidates are Democrats. Tech bros are typically libertarian. They try to align with the left since it markets better but that's always been an obvious, transparent lie. Progressives and tech bros aren't friends.
Uh you can get every one of those details from inference in their PR response. No speculation required. Just read like an informed adult.
They were asked to open the safe by law enforcement because they had a warrant for the safe. Not targeting the company itself. The company won't be mentioned in the warrant. But they have very likely done this many many times prior - they said as much and I'm sure law enforcement types have a great working relationship with gun safe manufacturers for very obvious reasons. We're talking like four companies that hold 99% of the market. That's an easy assumption.
It's the cognitive dissonance between pro-police and anti-authority that a very certain political bloc is dealing with in this "news" that makes it "news" at all.
And that reality makes the comments very very telling. Lotta folks wearing masks here.
The company willingly complied with a law enforcement request, that's literally all that happened. Happens all the time. It's only news when they don't comply -that's abnormal- or when it's being made a political issue by people who insist they're above politics. See some in this thread.
The company complied, the government only asked. They didn't force anything.
Don't be their customer. You're the one making this political.
"contraband" being just "things" made only contraband by virtue of being illegal. Just like certain kinds of speech, such as conspiracy to commit crimes.
So tbf, they're still the exact same thing.
Edit, @theragu40 it isn't pedantic. Law enforcement is about enforcing laws, not preventing violence. That the two things coincide every now and again means nothing. Words matter.
Pedantry is being picky about words when the definitions are irrelevant. When communication was successful despite the wrong word used and someone wants to correct the word anyway, that's a pedant. Here, the difference between violent illegal and just illegal are pretty much irrelevant as far as what the law says.
with Liberty Safe Inc getting into trouble if they didn’t comply.
Only if the warrant included Liberty Safe themselves. Which it most certainly did not.
There is no legal obligation they have to cooperate with law enforcement in investigations they aren't subjects of. That's true of every company in America. Every person in America too, for that matter.
I don't disagree with them for doing so, nor do I disagree with you in that they would've gotten that safe open anyway. But don't conflate a business being willing to bend over for law enforcement as an obligation. It rarely ever is. Lots of MAGA morons here doing exactly that too, saying the government overstepped. They didn't. They just asked, Liberty complied willingly. If you've got a problem here, it's with that company.
See the Apple case for all the nitty gritty in that. Apple doesn't cooperate with Law Enforcement.
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