Do You Think the Nsa Will Be Able to Provide These Tools to the Government?

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In the book, you talk about how the east german stasi recruited one and 60 people to serve as informants. But in the united states, you know, they don't need to do that, because they have these tech tools, right? And even after nine 11, there as a proposal called operation tips that would have had up to one in 24 americans working as informants. That really wasn't necessary with the nsa, right? So do you think that with the ability of these companies to provide these tools for the government, and their increasing willingness to do so, that that also kind of will make it more difficult to force the united states government to take these anti trust actions

Paris Marx is joined by Cory Doctorow to discuss how the problems we associate with Big Tech aren’t the result of mind-control systems, but corporation consolidation. Cory argues we need to stop buying the overblown sales pitch, stop collecting so much data, and enforce antitrust legislation against the tech monopolies.

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His most recent non-fiction book, “How to Defeat Surveillance Capitalism,” is available for free at OneZero. You can also preorder his next fiction book, “Attack Surface,” on Kickstarter or anywhere else books are sold. Cory has a daily blog at Pluralistic.net and you can follow him on Twitter as @doctorow.

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