The investment firm profiting off surveillance states

[dealmaker]

The investment firm profiting off surveillance states:Francisco Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, invests in tech that governments use for both mundane and controversial purposes. The firm's portfolio includes companies like Sandvine and NSO Group, which have both pursued deals with authoritarian regimes. What happens when you profit off corruption?(Bloomberg)

“What that could lead to—we’re talking about journalists vanishing, whistleblowers put in jail."

 

[El Trado]

How is this any worse than investing in Twitter, Google and the other anti-democratic behemoths in the US?

But I guess, money doesn't smell....

 

[stochastix]

fuck Twitter but Google is an incredible service. especially Google scholar

 

[Sig]

How is this any worse than investing in Twitter, Google and the other anti-democratic behemoths in the US?

But I guess, money doesn't smell....

Yeah, you're right. Twitter telling your favorite cult leader he can no longer use their service to try to overthrow a democratic election is exactly like helping Bashar al-Assad track down dissidents so he could kill them. Well I mean substantially similar, right? OK, pretty much the same thing?