Non-Infosec post:
I try to avoid non-digital politics as much as I can but I have to say this cause it needs to be said.
As people go through the recently released files and more and more of the corruption and evil deeds are mapped out by everyone over the coming months. I think it will become quite clear that the entire western world's world leaders, super rich and powerful are almost all deeply troubled, outright evil, completely untrustworthy and in many cases outright criminals.
Most our political systems and judicial systems in most our countries are rigged and many of the people being tied to these evil activities are either in charge or have friends in charge to protect them.
Odds are most if not all of the people involved in these activities will walk away unscathed from criminal or civil punishments and unfortunately, due to who holds the levers of powers in our nation's there really isn't anything that can be done about it.
These same people are the people trying to put laws in place to en masse surveillance, censor and control us all at a global scale and to strip our rights and freedoms away for *supposed* good intentions. But it is very obvious given human history, modern history and the recently released files no one at the top of our governments, businesses or positions of power can be trusted with this level of visibility, control or restrictions over us civilians in the western world.
These same people have decided that they "have to win the AI race" because it will give them the means to "replace" the vast majority of us in the work force. The ability to mass surveill, censor and control us online and via information from our kinetic activities. It will hand them the means for a select few powerful individuals to control nearly every aspect of our lives. To wage wars, police us in person and online, etc with AI and robotics, etc. This is why every government is eliminating all guardrails and investing everything into this. If this succeeds then life as we know it is over for us all.
Please remember only they benefit when everyone is fighting eachother based on age, sex, gender, race, financial status, nationality, religion, etc. It takes our limited focus and energy off of them and puts it on eachother instead. It solidifies their control over us and allows them to act without concern about any potential blowback or outrage.
The only way any of these people will ever face judicial consequences for their actions is if people can all decide remedying this comes above and beyond anything else.
Remember the government and MSM will be weaponized like always to try and divert everyone's attention away from this in the coming weeks to entirely different topics that breed infighting and division. Do not let them do this.
The minute we decide to move on from this and return to the status quo of falling for the government and MSMs propoganda to fight eachother instead of focusing on something as critical as this is the minute we have decided to never make any of the people in these documents ever face consequences for their actions.