The business model is what? They want to sell us stuff, right? It's called surveillance capitalism. The companies themselves, these tech companies make money off advertising and the advertisers. So that's the surveillance capitalism part. But then when you look at it, you put it like overlay it with geopolitical power. And we've seen this, different countries. I use Russia just because Russia invaded Ukraine itself,. This is in 2014 was when we began to see these experiments.
Will democracy survive? According to Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa, "we're in the last two minutes". In November she sat down with journalist Gabriel Gatehouse to discuss her lifetime commitment to journalism, the potential 99 years in jail which hang over her for standing up to former president Rodrigo Duterte's authoritarian regime, and her optimism for a brighter future. Maria and Gabriel also examine the greed of big tech in the destruction of democracies and why the Philippines is often ground zero for events which spread to the rest of the world.
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