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