*Ignoring this* is a first world luxury. The people feeling the effects of Surveillance Capitalism are precisely the most vulnerable today.https://twitter.com/leashless/status/806811007863525376 …
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Check your privilege before dismissing the very real concern of our becoming property again in the digital age.https://twitter.com/aral/status/806819000378396672 …
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Look at “Free Basics”, Google Loon, etc. Those with the least being given the option of accepting surveillance or lacking access.https://twitter.com/aral/status/806819279014395904 …
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This is precisely why the Indian people rejected Free Basics. And what did
@pmarca accuse them of? “Anti-colonialism.”https://twitter.com/aral/status/806819657642635264 …Aral Balkan added,
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So yes, there are tens of millions of actual slaves in the world today & that’s indescribably tragic (& I mention that in the linked talk)…https://twitter.com/aral/status/806819927017525249 …
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…but unlike before, it isn’t legal. What we’re heading towards in the digital age is a new form of legalised ownership of people.https://twitter.com/aral/status/806820263987965952 …
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So watch the whole talk, try to understand the nuances, and grok what’s at stake instead of trivialising it in a tweet.https://twitter.com/aral/status/806820565482897408 …
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