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Jiang argues the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate U.S. government needed front people to make computers seem safe, cute, and innocuous despite Pentagon surveillance origins.
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Jiang says the Pentagon effectively built a civilian-facing technological order through trusted consumer figures because Americans would have rejected the same infrastructure if it were presented openly as military control.
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"So if you guys want to get access, just go to jackneil.com, backslash iTrust, or scan the QR code on screen. Again, that is..."
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"...as a surveillance tool. They wanted to promote the internet and computers as a way to control people. But the problem is, Americans had..."
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"...an IP to HP. So Steve Wozniak creates this open source computer. And then he goes to his superiors at HP and says, look,..."
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"And then he becomes a billionaire along with Bill Gates. So HP gave Steve Wozniak the ability to sell Mac for free. Okay."
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"...had spent billions and decades in developing all this cutting edge computer research, why were they just giving this stuff for free to guys..."
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"...go insane. Okay? And it's no different from, I would say computer programmers, if that makes any sense. Like, once you create your own..."
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"...Peking University and when he saw these images, he's also a computer programmer. He got the Olympics into computer programming. But he said that..."
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"...that as a human being and this is an age before computers this is an age even before like pen and paper right but..."
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"...is like, think about the year 1300, you didn't have a computer, right, how are you, how are you able to do this, conceive..."
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"...how did he write this because this is a time without computers this is a time where pen and paper are not that accessible..."
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"So you have a computer, right? When you buy the computer, the internet connection is very smooth. You can download things really fast, right?..."
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"It's the hard, like the hard drive in the computer was broken, or like just with"
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