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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism

Cory Doctorow

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Key Facts and Insights from "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism"

  1. Surveillance capitalism is a new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales.
  2. Surveillance capitalists have amassed unprecedented concentrations of knowledge and power, bypassing democratic oversight.
  3. Platforms like Facebook and Google act as de facto monopolies and are a threat to democracy.
  4. Monopolies encourage surveillance capitalism as they have the resources and motivation to collect and exploit user data.
  5. Solutions to surveillance capitalism require robust anti-monopoly laws and regulations.
  6. "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" argues that the root...

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