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52 Cory Doctorow wants to set your Facebook data free

Reimagining the Internet

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Is This a Speculative Bubble?

Cambridge analytica idea that somehow, through mastering surveillance, having all this incredible data on us, the reason these companies have such eye popping valuations is that they can make us do things that we don't otherwise want to do. And i think that there there's a really important logical inconsistency in swallowing this claim at face value. I short that a shorthand that hypothesis, as markzukerberg built a mine control ray to sell your nephew fidget spinners, robert mercer stole it and made your uncle a kuanon.

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