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No Escape from Our Techno-Feudal World
By Pepe Escobar Source: Global Research The political economy of the Digital Age remains virtually terra incognita. In Techno-Feudalism, published three months ago in France (no English translation yet), Cedric Durand, an economist at the Sorbonne, provides a crucial, global public service as … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Hackers, internet freedom, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Alvin Toffler, Ayn Rand, capitalism, Cedric Durand, china, Chinese credit system, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Futurism, George Keyworth, Internet, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Silicon Valley, society, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Techno-Feudalism, Technocracy, technology, the Digital Age
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Slouching towards dystopia: the rise of surveillance capitalism and the death of privacy
Our lives and behaviour have been turned into profit for the Big Tech giants – and we meekly click “Accept”. How did we sleepwalk into a world without privacy? By John Naughton Source: New Statesman Suppose you walk into a shop and … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Oligarchy, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Big Tech, Biometrics, Dystopia, Edward Snowden, Facebook, Google, Internet, Mark Zuckerberg, Monopoly, Online Privacy, Sheryl Sandberg, Social Media, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, youtube
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The Tech Giants Are a Conduit for Fascism
By Michael Krieger Source: Liberty Blitzkrieg A second former Amazon employee would spark more controversy. Deap Ubhi, a former AWS employee who worked for Lynch, was tasked with gathering marketing information to make the case for a single cloud inside … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, freedom of speech, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, Whistleblowers
Tagged Amazon, AWS, Deap Ubhi, Department of Defense, Dystopia, Economics, eric schmidt, Facebook, facial recognition, fascism, Information Warfare, James Mattis, Jeff Bezos, Joseph Nacchio, National Security State, Oligarchy, Psyops, Qwest, Roma Laster, Silicon Valley, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Twitter, U.S. Department of Justice, whistleblowers
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How to Avert a Digital Dystopia
By Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh Source: OneZero “What I find [ominous] is how seldom, today, we see the phrase ‘the 22nd century.’ Almost never. Compare this with the frequency with which the 21st century was evoked in popular culture during, say, the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, internet freedom, media, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Apple, Black Mirror, culture, Dystopia, Elysium, Facebook, Google, Jeff Bezos, Mad Max, media, Nosedive, Pop Culture, Ready Player One, society, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Utopia
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Zuck’s New Scam
Don’t buy into Facebook’s pivot to privacy By Lizzie O’Shea Source: The Baffler THE RHETORIC AT FACEBOOK—the largest social media platform in the world—is changing. In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg claimed that privacy was no longer a “social norm.” Today, the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Bernard Harcourt, big data, corporatocracy, culture, Data Mining, Dystopia, Economics, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Privacy, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, Social Media, surveillance capitalism, Technocracy, technology
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Surveillance Capitalism
By John Bucher Source: Adbusters The alarm beside your bed rings, triggered by an event in your calendar. The smart thermostat in your bedroom senses your motion and turns on the hot water, reporting your movements to a central database … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged big data, Digital Panopticon, Dystopia, Economics, Facebook, Google, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology
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The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance: We’re Being Branded, Bought and Sold for Our Data
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your digital identity will live forever… because there’s no delete button.”—Former Google … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, CIA, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Neoliberalism, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged 1984, CIA, Dystopia, Facebook, fascism, FBI, George Orwell, Google, NSA, police state, Social Media, Soylent Green, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology
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