Hmm, it’s 2018… given what we know, do you really want to work for a titan of surveillance capitalism to make products to track, analyse & profile people with the purpose of exploiting that intimate insight into their lives for financial gain? (Same business model as Facebook.)https://twitter.com/Paul_Kinlan/status/978323081180696576 …
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So, let’s make it official, shall we? Calling on designers, developers, engineers, & anyone else working in the technology and publishing industries. Will you sign up to a pledge to not benefit from/help perpetuate
#SurveillanceCapitalism with your labour? If so, RT if you agree:4 replies 17 retweets 11 likesShow this thread -
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We can pledge not to work for them, but what about their users in our society? Wondering whether we can change things from inside e.g. taking strategic role in newsfeed redesign because it has been polarizing our society. How to save the society? Ask government to block access?
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To protect the people that are forced to use the products of Silicon Valley for lack of alternatives today, we must do two things: 1. Regulate the abuses of these companies 2. Fund and create ethical alternatives from the commons for the common good
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