Jatin Modi
Oracle built Beijing’s surveillance architecture. A sophisticated instrument of absolute observation where citizens are graded like products, where jaywalking costs travel rights, where the wrong word on social media vanishes job prospects, where your score becomes your cage.
Now Oracle sells that cage to democracies, gift-wrapped as public safety.
“We don’t advocate for technology solutions because we work with Oracle. We work with Oracle and other technology companies because we believe technology holds the key to the future.’ -Tony Blair Institute (TBI) Spokesperson
However Larry Ellison of Oracle has been reported to have pledged £257m to the TBI (Tony Blair Institute) think tank. This has been revealed through investigative journalists like Democracy for Sale’s Peter Geoghegan looking into US declarations of interest. In the UK think tanks don’t have to declare their funding sources, even though TBI influence reaches right into the heart of Government. Also disturbingly the BBC regularly reports on TBI policy suggestions as ‘news’. items, without mentioning who funds TBI, and why there might be conflicts of interest? This includes their advocacy of digital ID.
Ellison, the world’s 2nd richest man says digital ID cards mean ‘citizens will be on best behaviour’
The man behind the latest push for digital ID cards in the UK has said that Brits “will be on their best behaviour” once introduced. He added that the moves will mean authorities are “constantly watching” everything that is going on.
Rory Gannon msn
The digital ID cards proposed by Keir Starmer’s government are mandatory for ‘working people’ (although we continue to see mission creep with children now included in the proposal) Given Oracle has been involved in the Beijing surveillance architecture where ‘the wrong word on social media vanishes job prospects, where your score becomes your cage.’ we can see how this might go…
Many former employees at the TBI spoke on condition of anonymity for a Newstatesman investigation;
‘some did not believe Oracle’s technology was always in the best interests of the country in which they were working…There is deep disquiet among many current and former TBI staff over the conflation of complex public interests with corporate priorities. Despite their founder’s [Tony Blair] noted evangelical zeal for AI and its billionaire architects, there still is a difference between Larry Ellison and God.’
Larry Ellison has been targeting Oxford, helped by Tony Blair, who has been showing him around. Tony Blair is an alumni of St John’s College, known to be the wealthiest College in Oxford. Ellison’s people apparently are saying ‘everything’s for sale’ and bought the Eagle and Child pub (frequented by Tolkien and CS Lewis) even though Ellison was initially told it was not for sale. It was Tony Blair’s Alma mater St John’s College that eventually sold it to Larry Ellison. I do wonder what the deeply creative, human and spiritual Tolkien and CS Lewis would make of this Tech billionaire takeover of their Inklings watering hole? Additionally Larry Ellison has bought up
‘About 4 miles from the pub, in a science office park outside the city center, the Oracle founder is bankrolling a massive for-profit research campus costing upward of $1.3 billion, the planned home of his Ellison Institute of Technology by 2027….Since then, Ellison has been splashing out hundreds of millions on real estate in and around Oxford and luring top academics from the publicly funded university to come work for him for outsize salaries.’
For approximately £26 million per year over five years, Larry Ellison secured commercialization rights to research output from one of the world’s leading universities: Britain’s Oxford University…British taxpayers and Oxford’s endowment fund the underlying research through grants, infrastructure, and faculty salaries. Yet, the commercial upside flows to an American billionaire’s private entity that will determine how these technologies enter the market, who licenses them, and on what terms – Di Rifai
Does Oxford want to become the new Beijing? under the thumb of the tech billionaire linked to autocratic regimes around the world?
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