Just like any predator, a people farmer like Google and Facebook targets the most vulnerable prey. However, unlike natural predators who hunt to feed, people farmers hunt from greed. And to placate the other livestock, they don’t call it hunting. They call it “philanthropy.”https://twitter.com/TheNewLou/status/987289743191953408 …
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The cost of being poor shouldn’t be de facto surveillance. We can build technology that isn’t tied to this Faustian bargain. A bargain forced upon the poorest and the most vulnerable in the name of philanthropy. So it was with Facebook’s Free Basics, so it is with this.
2:07 PM - 20 Apr 2018
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