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This quote: "Again and again, Snyder blames the targets of surveillance capitalism for their own surveillance" This is an awful way of looking at the world, b
by gridlockd 7y ago
This quote:
"Again and again, Snyder blames the targets of surveillance capitalism for their own surveillance"
This is an awful way of looking at the world, because it denies that people have personal responsibility. Everybody knows what Facebook does. It is in plain sight. It's in their terms of services. It's all over the media.
A lot of people don't use Facebook because of what Facebook does. Using Facebook is a fool's bargain, just like smoking or gambling.
If people can't be blamed for their own conscious decisions, we might as well throw out the whole legal system. All contracts are void, because nobody has legal capacity.
This is all pretext for more legislation, for the nanny state to come in and save us all from our dumb and irresponsible selves, to create more positions for bureaucrats to extract even more rent out of the remaining members of society. Don't buy this.