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One side is people like me, who largely try to use software to run our lives and at odds with all the following sides. There are at least three surveillance ap
by abdullahkhalids 4y ago
One side is people like me, who largely try to use software to run our lives and at odds with all the following sides.
There are at least three surveillance apparatuses that seeks to record everything we do.
* the state-surveillance apparatus to extend its own power (see Snowden)
* the ad-industry-surveillance apparatus to increase their own profits.
* the social-media-surveillance apparatus that wants to increase our engagement and in-collusion with the ad-industry increase their profits.
The social-media companies + email companies that refuse to standardize their protocols.
Then there is the copyright industry that has created DRM with no regards to stopping legitimate usage of media bought by us.
There is the cloud-service providers that use open-source software to rake in billions of profits but won't donate 5 dollars to the creators of the open-source software.
The OS creators that make it harder and harder for power-users to use their computer as they want to.
The state-departments that force that use of apps on non-free OS/computers to access essential services.
- contravariant 4y agoI'm not sure those last two are different. You can however split the ad industry surveillance into (at least) two kinds. The first is surveillance aimed at increasing the power of each individual advertisement by personalizing them to the victim, by their nature these typically seek all kinds of deeply personal information about someone's psyche but not necessarily their daily life. The second is surveillance aimed at 'proving' the effectiveness of ads, these typically ignore people's interests but dig deeply into their daily activities, what they buy, what they see, what they hear, just to be able to claim it was their ad that made someone buy something.
- nuc1e0n 4y agoI wouldn't even call it an opposition of ideas. There's just people who understand, like Doctorow, and those that are flailing around.