“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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Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan
I do wonder what it’s going to take for the tech community to stop normalising these companies, their business models, and their products. What’s it going to take before you stop mentioning their names without a warning, criticism, or a disclaimer to distance yourselves?https://twitter.com/aral/status/930540250778267654 …
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Aral Balkan @aral“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.”#SurveillanceCapitalism https://twitter.com/NakedSecurity/status/930538388851187713 …Show this thread3 replies 8 retweets 10 likesShow this thread -
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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/ ).1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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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