Never Take Counsel of Your Fears.
My worry is that when the online ad revenue dries up, the Big Tech data refineries (it's naive to call them 'social media companies') will simply turn to mass-customized blackmail.https://twitter.com/EmersonSpartz/status/1193693857180897280 …
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That seems like the worst advice in the history of bad advice
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The thing Orwell got wrong was that the always on telescreens were forced into everyone's homes by the Party. What actually transpired was that we voluntarily queued up to buy them and carry them with us everywhere we go.
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Mine was handed to me by my boss ...when I’m having a bad day, it makes me smile to think how a short range EMP would cripple the business
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Privacy will soon be remembered only in antiquity. The tech we have today has a cost/benefit analysis that has been poorly measured at best and used malevolently at worst. I believe the latter.
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Selling Influence and political manipulation seem like much more lucrative uses for this information. And seems to be what’s already the business model.
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"Data refineries" Yes. Let's make "data refineries" happen.
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Much of it already has. I've watched the days of $50 CPM dwindle down to $0.50 and then, of course, the eventual removal from Google's advertising because your originally martial arts-based website has too much "violence". I'm not going to data-mine our 300k members info though.
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Hate to break it to you, but simply putting AdWords or GA on your site already contributes to the data mining.
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We are fish
in the net...it just hasn’t been pulled yetThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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