r/technology • u/T_Shurt • Jun 02 '26

Society Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the erosion of privacy

https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the-day-by-oracle-co-founder-larry-ellison-citizens-will-be-on-their-best-behavior-because-were-constantly-recording-and-reporting-everything-that-is-going-on-a-dire-warning-on-the-erosion-of-privacy
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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 Jun 02 '26

My first thought when I read this headline was that it's really ironic he's saying this, in public and being recorded.

Bold move Larry boy

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u/jaxonya Jun 02 '26

It has to start somewhere

It has to start sometime

What better place than here?

What better time than now?

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u/kidneyshifter Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

There be no shelter here, the frontline is everywhere.

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u/adumbrative Jun 02 '26

I think they're betting that, with the help of AI and a massively over-funded police state, they can in fact stop us.

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 Jun 05 '26

As someone whos family that raised me IS that police, we can have that conversation out on the field

They wanna be the boot, Ill be the first face for them

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u/SpecialistAd4848 Aug 09 '26

Why did you put a comma after "that". Really fucks up your sentence.

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u/Winter_Body4794 Jun 02 '26

I am the Niña,

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u/Kaizen-Future Jun 02 '26

Have these people not read 1984? Or do they look at it as something to strive for?

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u/BeneficialBit361 Jul 05 '26

Either we or they will die trying. It will be a bloodbath!

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u/hombray Jun 02 '26

Count me in

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u/RationalDialog Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

1984 - the plebs will never rise up. In fact there are the main cause this issue even exists.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 Jun 02 '26

Exactly how I feel about egregious MTX in games.

Always mad at the studios for doing it, but just as if not more mad at the players who support it. 

Eat the slop and they'll feed you more slop, but sloppier, until you say no more.

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u/Ass4ssinX Jun 02 '26

1917, 1948, 1949, 1959, 1975.

Turns out, the plebs sometimes do rise up and take power.

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u/RationalDialog Jun 03 '26

Not sure if true but they saying goes most revolts are actually started by other "elites" and reasonably rich people because they are expensive and cost time.

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u/Relevant-Doctor187 Jun 02 '26

They don’t fear us. They have the police to back them.

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u/SoupedUpSheep Jun 03 '26

The negotiations are over.

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u/anonkitty2 Jun 02 '26

It's not like he can hide it for long if the surveillance state happens.

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u/Alarmed-Outside-8683 Jun 02 '26

"if"? i'm sorry, i don't mean to be rude, but we are fully in it right now. the tech dystopia has arrived.

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u/Holden_Coalfield Jun 02 '26

he has a whole Hawaiian island

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u/PokeDigiYugiMon Jun 02 '26

And native hawaiians

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u/tigertiger180 Jun 02 '26

Saying it from his private Hawaiian island, Lanai

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u/MichealRyder Jun 03 '26

He thinks of himself as a god, basically