The Real Reason DARPA Created The Internet

In this Majority Report clip, it sucks when you think your government spent your tax dollars on something cool and beneficial to the world, but then it turns out it was all just a new way to track and kill communists around the world for the benefit of capitalist oligarchs.

"A reporter unearths the true history of the internet: it was built by the government to spy on citizens, at home and abroad.

In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine traces the history of the internet back to its beginnings as a Vietnam-era tool for spying on guerrilla fighters and antiwar protesters–a military computer networking project that ultimately envisioned the creation of a global system of surveillance and prediction. Levine shows how the same military objectives that drove the development of early internet technology are still at the heart of Silicon Valley today. Spies, counterinsurgency campaigns, hippie entrepreneurs, privacy apps funded by the CIA. From the 1960s to the 2010s — this revelatory and sweeping story will make you reconsider what you know about the most powerful, ubiquitous tool ever created."*

[JoeCr-ignh]

What’s that? lifelog, the darpa project, was cancelled the day before Facebook was launched

[ryansorry]

Internet. Just a huge Data Archive of everything.

[oraz.]

It started in academia and was picked up by arpa, but it was still mainy university research with military funding and was being developed in parallel in other places for connecting universities. Also in france. Darpa still funds academic projects, but yeah they funded alot if computer science. Just my 2 cents, my teacher was around way back then.

[wcs]

The only thing A Gore invented was globle warming😂

[deadpiratetattoo]

Talk about backfiring. Its been used to attack the makers.

[athen]

i bet now a days the hosts would call yasha a far right extremist conspiracy theorist lmao

[rapash]

who knew and so interesting the speaker tells the everyone in the world the answer at minute marker 10:19... who knew

[biokido]

That's a little in the realm of alex jones.