flo<p><span>"Build a Better Monster <br><br>(...) <br><br>We built the commercial internet by mastering techniques of persuasion and surveillance that we’ve extended to billions of people, including essentially the entire population of the Western democracies. But admitting that this tool of social control might be conducive to authoritarianism is not something we’re ready to face. After all, we're good people. We like freedom. How could we have built tools that subvert it? <br>(...) <br><br>Surveillance Capitalism<br><br>The economic basis of the Internet is surveillance. Every interaction with a computing device leaves a data trail, and whole industries exist to consume this data. Unlike dystopian visions from the past, this surveillance is not just being conducted by governments or faceless corporations. Instead, it’s the work of a small number of sympathetic tech companies with likable founders, whose real dream is to build robots and Mars rockets and do cool things that make the world better. Surveillance just pays the bills. <br>(...) <br><br>Surveillance capitalism offers exceptionally subtle levers of social control. Apart from the obvious chilling effect on political expression when everything you say is permanently recorded, there is the chilling effect of your own peer group, and the lingering doubt that anything you say privately can ever truly stay private. <br>(...)" <br><br>Interesting longread! <br><br>Source (2017): <br></span><a href="https://idlewords.com/talks/build_a_better_monster.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">idlewords.com/talks/build_a_better_monster.htm</a><span> <br><br></span><a href="https://iceshrimp.de/tags/Internet" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Internet</a><span> </span><a href="https://iceshrimp.de/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SurveillanceCapitalism</a><span> </span><a href="https://iceshrimp.de/tags/Politics" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a></p>