The Destruction of Oversight and the AI-Digital Coup
His Pac-Man destruction the U.S. government proceeds at the speed of digital light.
This morning I wanted to send you this article I read on The Conversation (it’s great). Here’s just one quote from the article by Alison Stanger, Distinguished Endowed Professor / Middlebury:
Musk has an enormous corporate empire, ambitions in artificial intelligence, desire for financial power and a long-standing disdain for government oversight. His access to sensitive government systems and ability to restructure agencies, with the opaque decision-making guiding DOGE to date, have positioned Musk to extract unprecedented financial and strategic benefits for both himself and his companies, which include the electric car company Tesla and space transport company SpaceX.
One historical parallel in particular is striking. In 1600, the British East India Company, a merchant shipping firm, began with exclusive rights to conduct trade in the Indian Ocean region before slowly acquiring quasi-governmental powers and ultimately ruling with an iron fist over British colonies in Asia, including most of what is now India. In 1677, the company gained the right to mint currency on behalf of the British crown.
As I explain in my upcoming book “Who Elected Big Tech?” the U.S. is witnessing a similar pattern of a private company taking over government operations.
Note: It took an Act of Parliament to wrench and wrestle and wrest power from the British East India Company … the “security services” of which slaughtered Asians over which it managed control.
A great point Stanger makes is this:
Who can effectively investigate a group designed to dismantle oversight itself? The administration’s illegal firing of at least a dozen inspectors general before the Musk operation began suggests a deliberate strategy to eliminate government accountability. The Republican-led Congress, closely aligned with Trump, may not want to step in; but even if it did, Musk is moving far faster than Congress ever does.
Here is the whole brilliant article
We need to return this man to some kind of oversight. Fight.
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