“You’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology … The inventors, creators — it’s me, it’s Mark [Zuckerberg], it’s Kevin Systrom on Instagram, it’s all of these people — understood this consciously. And we did it anyway.”
#SurveillanceCapitalismhttps://twitter.com/NakedSecurity/status/930538388851187713 …
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“The one effective lever we have against tech companies is employee pressure,” says Maciej Ceglowski (
@baconmeteor) in http://idlewords.com/talks/build_a_better_monster.htm … (and he has founded https://techsolidarity.org/ ). -
It’s one effective lever, not the only one. Effective regulation is essential as well as funding the alternatives via alternative means (not VC/private equity-based subsidy); in other words via the commons/taxes to build public infrastructure and public space.
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I think you could sooner get rid of alcohol than get rid of social media's dopamine hit cycle. But we can regulate it, to a degree.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Once the money and power stop flowing?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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