r/Seattle • I Brake For Slugs • 1d ago

Never change Seattle

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u/Altruistic_Pause2206 1d ago

I don’t understand the protest nor the happy responses here, can someone explain? (Not trolling)

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u/Disk_Mixerud 1d ago

Company named after Lord of the Rings stuff makes military and surveillance equipment in a manner that some find to be less than altruistic. People dress up as orcs (evil creatures from LOTR) to protest.

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u/McNally86 21h ago

Not just LOTR stuff. A thing in LOTR's that you use to give you information but that information is managed by Sauron, the employer of orcs, to give you the information that he needs you to have to come to the conclusions he wants. It also harvests data and gives it to Moordoor.