Vicious Cycle: The Pentagon Creates Tech Giants and Then Buys their Services

posted 2 years ago by eagle-eyes2020 2 years ago by eagle-eyes2020 +23 / -0

"Vicious Cycle: The Pentagon Creates Tech Giants and Then Buys their Services:

The US Department of Defense’s bloated budget, along with CIA venture capital, helped to create tech giants, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and PayPal. The government then contracts those companies to help its military and intelligence operations. In doing so, it makes the tech giants even bigger.

In recent years, the traditional banking, energy and industrial Fortune 500 companies have been losing ground to tech giants like Apple and Facebook. But the technology on which they rely emerged from the taxpayer-funded research and development of bygone decades. The internet started as ARPANET, an invention of Honeywell-Raytheon working under a Department of Defense (DoD) contract. The same satellites that enable modern internet communications also enable US jets to bomb their enemies, as does the GPS that enables online retailers to deliver products with pinpoint accuracy. Apple’s touchscreen technology originated as a US Air Force tool. The same drones that record breath-taking video are modified versions of Reapers and Predators.

Tax-funded DoD research is the backbone of the modern, hi-tech economy. But these technologies are dual-use. The companies that many of us take for granted–including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and PayPal–are connected indirectly and sometimes very directly to the US military-intelligence complex. ... "

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/22/vicious-cycle-the-pentagon-creates-tech-giants-and-then-buys-their-services/

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– mazian 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

Law and lawsuit for the following. All patents applied for, issued, owned by any individual(s) or company receiving funding or pay from the government are forever irrevocably usable (or open sourced) to all individuals and companies owned solely by individuals of the United States.

Any profit gained from a patent where it is determined that the contracts awarded resulted from fraud, bribery or general criminal behavior to secure the contracts/agreements with the government in the development of the patent shall be taken from the individuals, entities, companies that conducted fraud, bribery, general criminal behavior and awarded those competitors directly impacted by contract competition. Individuals will/may also receive appropriate criminal penalties. The companies shall be put out of existence (corporate execution).

(Edits are due to rewording of and expansion too the core argument of penalizing the companies.)

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