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"You know, you probably know this phrase, 'Do not obey in advance.' That's Tim Snyder, who's a historian of authoritarianism. We now are in techno-authoritarianism. We have to learn how to digitally disobey. That can be as simple as the dropdown box. Don't accept the cookies, don't give your real name, download Signal (@signalapp), the encrypted messaging app. Don’t bomb Yemen, don't add the editor of 'The Atlantic' to your group chats."
-- Carole Cadwalladr

"This is my guide, and it has to start with naming it. It's a coup. I know you probably don't want to hear that, and especially here, but we can’t fight it if we can’t see it. And we can’t see it if we don’t name it."
-- Carole Cadwalladr

ted.com/talks/carole_cadwallad

[#EnVrac] Carole Cadwalladr: This is what a digital coup looks like | TED Talk

“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “broligarchy” — the powerful tech…
ted.com/talks/carole_cadwallad

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An the last quote from Carole Cadwalladr's TED talk "This is what a digital coup looks like":

I chose to come back to TED because I'm reclaiming my story, my words.

We are not powerless.

The 30,000 people who supported me proved that – we ar not powerless.
Because we know who we are, and we know what we stand for.

And my question to Silicon Valley is, do you?

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Carole Cadwalladr:

Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk. Your are not gods. You are men, and you are careless.

You think that by allying yourself with an autocrat you will be protected. That's not how history works. It's not even how oligarchy works.

[…]

You are sucking up to a tuyrant who is trying to destroy the laws who made your businesses possible.

You are collaborators.

You are complicit in a regime of fear and cruelty.


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