The founder of Pokemon received funding from the CIA-backed investment firm In-Q-Tel for his mapping company Keyhole. Years later, Niantic turned Pokémon Go into a global phenomenon while using its massive player base to help build increasingly sophisticated maps of the physical world. And after selling Pokémon Go, Hanke’s remaining company, Niantic Spatial, is now openly marketing that mapping and spatial AI technology for defense and intelligence applications. Making people question if the game had deeper intentions from the beginning.
They sold Pokémon Go?
How can the one thing that felt the closest to world peace we ever got turn out to just be the CIA fucking us about again.
i always had a sneaking suspicion something was off with GO, why does it map places where people shoulndt be,
It would explain why there was a Stop on Epstein’d Island.
Haven’t seen it as a past-tense verb before, but that tracks.
Blame it on the 6am phone grammar.
Crack was never about peace. ☝🏼
peace
the pax romana (roman giant peace project) was one of the most imperial undertakings of human history after all. “peace” (as defined by the powers that be) is just another way of saying “preserving the ruling system”
Gotta catch YOU all!
Hoping you get more stars <3
I ain’t watching that but they already accomplished that with ingress. The pokestops were straight up copied over from ingress, which was a database built by users over years. Pokémon go then pushed it mainstream industrialized data collection. And honestly? I don’t mind. We got better walking maps, a neat way to find points of interest in unfamiliar areas, and a way to socialize with strangers. The CIA gets some mapping and movement data they could probably get through flock cameras or something equally evil.
It’s telling that they got the funding years before Pokemon Go. You are right that everything was Ingress back then, just not at the scale as Pokemon. The difference between laying down fields in a park thick with portals before and after Pokemon Go was the amount of people in the area.
If you want to get really deep with it, you can start looking at the partnership Niantic had with Goruck and how they started hiring a whole bunch of SOF guys to run Ingress Goruck events.
The part that is probably getting you downvoted is probably the acceptance of the whole thing. It’s still not ok.
Those that trade liberty for freedom® will have neither.
I see things differently. Maybe (just maybe) industrializing data collection does not affect my way of living, and maybe, as you say, we got better maps out of this.
Still, I do care about other people, those that are directly affected by these technologies. Especially because of their military use. I believe it’s important to care about others as well.
Btw and since you won’t watch this, if you feel like, check out the company called Niantic.
I’m broadly familiar with Niantic. Have they given data to Israel or some shit?
Mhm.
