ARPANET: funded by the us department of defense’s advanced research projects agency (arpa), was a pioneering packet-switching network that served as the precursor to the modern internet, enabling interconnected computer communication and resource sharing among researchers

author of the book “surveillance valley” – yasha levine. levine’s family emigrated from the soviet union in 1989 when levine was 8-years-old, he is a russian-american investigative journalist, author and reporter. levine, who was born in the soviet union, was raised in san francisco, CA.

the internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. yasha levine traces the origins of the web in his book, “surveillance valley,” and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.

image above: vietnam

the defense communications planning group is a pretty boring name for a secretive group tasked with building one of the most high-tech war surveillance systems ever devised — and that’s no accident. the name, DCPG for short, was intentionally dull to prevent north vietnamese forces from getting too suspicious should they hear about it.

after listening to this you can extract why china developed tiktok to counter the US incursions and why US wants to shut it down or control it… it makes sense…

while some frowned at levines idea of “depicting the likes of amazon as part of a military conspiracy” a conspiracy itself… i think we now know well how google cloud and amazon cloud, and social media have been weaponized and are indeed party to the military surveillance and Ai in a major way. you can read the guardian UKs very negative review of levine’s book here. by dd