You’re going to see Facebook/Google repent & implement superficial changes.
You’re going to hear talk of “attention”, “addiction”, and self-regulation.
You’re going to see VCs funding what they purport to be ethical alternatives.
All this is bullshit.
#SurveillanceCapitalism
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I hold in very high esteem the purist stance of http://Ind.ie 's positions, products, initiatives; as well your &
@laurakalbag's work generally. I'd love for many more of us to be able to carve & hack away at 'surveillance capitalism' & privacy erosions... -
Certainly worthy of critical eyes, but in this case, I don't find it useful to strike an organization out because the majority of revenue derives from Google. Glancing over Moz's annual reports, it seems there are numerous initiatives to applaud that wouldn't otherwise exist.
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Would you trust Greenpeace if they got nearly all their revenue/billions from Exxon Mobil? It does astound me how our industry seems incapable of seeing institutional corruption even when it stares us in the face in our own backyard.
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Auditing and evaluating team motives and initiatives at a worldwide organization like Mozilla (two organizations: a corp and a foundation) is apart from declaring whether I blindly trust the org overall, or their board...
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Furthermore, sometimes the best many of us can do is to siphon financial means from the organizations that invade and offend us, and turn around to put it to better use. *shrug*
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