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52 Cory Doctorow wants to set your Facebook data free

Reimagining the Internet

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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism

The term surveillance capitalism started with some leftist academics at the university of british columbia, who used it really as a critique of capitalism itself. Shoshana zubof believed that big tech firms have figured out how to use machine learning and surveillance data gathering so they tell us what we're going to buy. And when you ask why it is they should command such a giant premium for advertising, they say it's because their advertising works really well. So i want to start with this cerealized e book because, a, how to destroy surveillance capitalism is a topic nearer and dearer to my heart. A, how should we destroy surveilance capitalism? And can we start

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