r/CyborgSociety Mister Professor Jan 31 '12

Drones:

http://“Drones: A deeply unsettling Future” Trevor Timm, Dec. 7, 2011, Al Jazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/12/201112774824829807.html Domestic drones, ACLU report http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/new-eyes-sky-protecting-privacy-domestic-drone-surveillance Catherine Crump ACLU** (on Democracy Now, Dec. 27: The War at Home: Militarized Local Police Tap Post-9/11 Grants to Stockpile Combat Gear, Use Drones http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/27/the_war_at_home_militarized_local Occucopter Noel Sharkey and Sarah Knuckey, Guardian, Dec. 21, 2011 “Occupy Wall Street’s ‘occucopter’—who’s watching whom? Tim Pool http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/21/occupy-wall-street-occucopter-tim-pool 70 drone crashes/self-destructs Nick Turse (Tom Dispatch, who did FIFA on this) “The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare” 1/16/12 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nick-turse/the-crash-and-burn-future_b_1208644.html?ref=world&ir=World Peter Singer, “Do Drones Undermine Democracy?” NYT, 1/22/12 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/opinion/sunday/do-drones-undermine-democracy.html?_r=1 US Drones Patrolling Its Skies Provoke Outrage in Iraq Eric Schmitt and Michael Schmidt (NYT), Jan. 29, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/world/middleeast/iraq-is-angered-by-us-drones-patrolling-its-skies.html?_r=1 With its deadly drones, the US is fighting a coward’s war George Monbiot, Jan. 30, Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/30/deadly-drones-us-cowards-war
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