X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-destroy-surveillance.git/blobdiff_plain/e251a98c1513c2a4e9969c78dffdf7134cb2aad0..a6a8f4785b15054cbda41726e9dc8976ac048445:/po/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.pot?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/po/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.pot b/po/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.pot index f44651a..3960108 100644 --- a/po/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.pot +++ b/po/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.pot @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism n/a\n" -"POT-Creation-Date: 2020-09-07 22:34+0200\n" +"POT-Creation-Date: 2020-11-15 20:41+0100\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n" @@ -16,71 +16,102 @@ msgstr "" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" -#. type: Attribute 'lang' of: -#: complete-book.xml:4 +#. type: Attribute 'lang' of:
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This license permits " "any use of this work, so long as attribution is given and no derivatived " @@ -88,28 +119,35 @@ msgid "" "<ulink url=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/\"/>." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:54 -msgid "ISBN 978-82-93828-05-1 (hard cover)" -msgstr "" - -#. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:57 -msgid "ISBN 978-82-93828-06-8 (paperback)" +#. type: Content of: <article><articleinfo><abstract><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:84 +msgid "" +"Our devices and services gather most of the data that the NSA mines for its " +"surveillance project. We pay for these devices and the services they connect " +"to, and then we painstakingly perform the data-entry tasks associated with " +"logging facts about our lives, opinions, and preferences." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:60 -msgid "ISBN 978-82-93828-07-5 (ePub)" +#. type: Content of: <article><articleinfo><abstract><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:91 +msgid "" +"Thanks to Big Tech, Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. This is not " +"because it is really good at manipulating our behaviour, or the rogue abuse " +"of corporate power. It is the result of unchecked monopolism and the " +"abusive behavior it abets. It is the system working as intended and " +"expected. Cory Doctorow has written an extended critique of Shoshana " +"Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at " +"the New Frontier of Power, with a non-magical analysis of the problem " +"leading to a different proposal for a solution." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:67 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:105 msgid "The net of a thousand lies" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:69 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:107 msgid "" "The most surprising thing about the rebirth of flat Earthers in the 21st " "century is just how widespread the evidence against them is. You can " @@ -118,8 +156,8 @@ msgid "" "commonsense belief that the flat-seeming Earth was, indeed, flat." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:77 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:115 msgid "" "But today, when elementary schools routinely dangle GoPro cameras from " "balloons and loft them high enough to photograph the Earth’s curve — to say " @@ -128,8 +166,8 @@ msgid "" "flat." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:84 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:122 msgid "" "Likewise for white nationalism and eugenics: In an age where you can become " "a computational genomics datapoint by swabbing your cheek and mailing it to " @@ -137,16 +175,16 @@ msgid "" "science</quote> has never been easier to refute." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:90 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:128 msgid "" "We are living through a golden age of both readily available facts and " "denial of those facts. Terrible ideas that have lingered on the fringes for " "decades or even centuries have gone mainstream seemingly overnight." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:96 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:134 msgid "" "When an obscure idea gains currency, there are only two things that can " "explain its ascendance: Either the person expressing that idea has gotten a " @@ -160,8 +198,8 @@ msgid "" "the Greta Thunbergs of the world to convince us." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:109 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:147 msgid "" "The arguments for ridiculous beliefs in odious conspiracies like " "anti-vaccination, climate denial, a flat Earth, and eugenics are no better " @@ -170,8 +208,8 @@ msgid "" "refuting facts." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:116 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:154 msgid "" "Anti-vax has been around since the first vaccines, but the early " "anti-vaxxers were pitching people who were less equipped to understand even " @@ -181,15 +219,15 @@ msgid "" "and they have a much harder job." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:125 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:163 msgid "" "So can these far-fetched conspiracy theorists really be succeeding on the " "basis of superior arguments?" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:129 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:167 msgid "" "Some people think so. Today, there is a widespread belief that machine " "learning and commercial surveillance can turn even the most fumble-tongued " @@ -206,16 +244,16 @@ msgid "" "surveillance are causing the changes in our consensus about what’s true." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:145 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:183 msgid "" "After all, in a world where sprawling and incoherent conspiracy theories " "like Pizzagate and its successor, QAnon, have widespread followings, " "<emphasis>something</emphasis> must be afoot." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:150 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:188 msgid "" "But what if there’s another explanation? What if it’s the material " "circumstances, and not the arguments, that are making the difference for " @@ -227,8 +265,8 @@ msgid "" "theories?" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:160 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:198 msgid "" "If it’s trauma and not contagion — material conditions and not ideology — " "that is making the difference today and enabling a rise of repulsive " @@ -238,8 +276,8 @@ msgid "" "ever-more-extreme ideas and communities." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:168 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:206 msgid "" "Belief in conspiracy is a raging fire that has done real damage and poses " "real danger to our planet and species, from epidemics <ulink " @@ -252,8 +290,8 @@ msgid "" "world through the conspiracies they’ve been confused by." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:180 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:218 msgid "" "But firefighting is reactive. We need fire " "<emphasis>prevention</emphasis>. We need to strike at the traumatic material " @@ -261,8 +299,8 @@ msgid "" "too, tech has a role to play." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:186 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:224 msgid "" "There’s no shortage of proposals to address this. From the EU’s <ulink " "url=\"https://edri.org/tag/terreg/\">Terrorist Content Regulation</ulink>, " @@ -275,8 +313,8 @@ msgid "" "companies to solve the problems they created." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:197 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:235 msgid "" "There’s a critical piece missing from the debate, though. All these " "solutions assume that tech companies are a fixture, that their dominance " @@ -287,8 +325,8 @@ msgid "" "implement the systems these laws demand." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:207 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:245 msgid "" "Figuring out what we want our tech to look like is crucial if we’re going to " "get out of this mess. Today, we’re at a crossroads where we’re trying to " @@ -297,20 +335,20 @@ msgid "" "Tech’s stranglehold. We can’t do both, so we have to choose." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:215 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:253 msgid "" "I want us to choose wisely. Taming Big Tech is integral to fixing the " -"internet, and for that, we need digital rights activism." +"Internet, and for that, we need digital rights activism." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:219 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:257 msgid "Digital rights activism, a quarter-century on" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:221 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:259 msgid "" "Digital rights activism is more than 30 years old now. The Electronic " "Frontier Foundation turned 30 this year; the Free Software Foundation " @@ -332,8 +370,8 @@ msgid "" "the humans in a world where tech is inexorably taking over." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:242 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:280 msgid "" "The latest version of this critique comes in the form of <quote>surveillance " "capitalism,</quote> a term coined by business professor Shoshana Zuboff in " @@ -356,21 +394,21 @@ msgid "" "species." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:263 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:301 msgid "" "What’s more, I think that her incorrect diagnosis will lead us down a path " "that ends up making Big Tech stronger, not weaker. We need to take down Big " "Tech, and to do that, we need to start by correctly identifying the problem." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:269 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:307 msgid "Tech exceptionalism, then and now" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:271 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:309 msgid "" "Early critics of the digital rights movement — perhaps best represented by " "campaigning organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free " @@ -386,8 +424,8 @@ msgid "" "ghetto uprising." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:286 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:324 msgid "" "In the decades since, accusations of <quote>tech exceptionalism</quote> have " "only sharpened as tech’s role in everyday life has expanded: Now that tech " @@ -397,8 +435,8 @@ msgid "" "self-interested negligence (or worse, nefarious plots)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:294 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:332 msgid "" "From my perspective, the digital rights movement has remained stationary " "while the rest of the world has moved. From the earliest days, the " @@ -410,8 +448,8 @@ msgid "" "for good actors to help users)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:305 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:343 msgid "" "The <quote>surveillance capitalism</quote> critique recasts the digital " "rights movement in a new light again: not as alarmists who overestimate the " @@ -421,18 +459,18 @@ msgid "" "fight the last century’s tech battles." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:313 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:351 msgid "But tech exceptionalism is a sin no matter who practices it." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:316 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:354 msgid "Don’t believe the hype" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:318 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:356 msgid "" "You’ve probably heard that <quote>if you’re not paying for the product, " "you’re the product.</quote> As we’ll see below, that’s true, if incomplete. " @@ -443,8 +481,8 @@ msgid "" "engines, maps, messaging, and more — are delivery systems for persuasion." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:328 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:366 msgid "" "The fear of surveillance capitalism starts from the (correct) presumption " "that everything Big Tech says about itself is probably a lie. But the " @@ -457,8 +495,8 @@ msgid "" "indicator of a product’s efficacy." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:340 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:378 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalism assumes that because advertisers buy a lot of what " "Big Tech is selling, Big Tech must be selling something real. But Big Tech’s " @@ -467,8 +505,8 @@ msgid "" "and commerce." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:347 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:385 msgid "" "Being watched changes your behavior, and not for the better. It creates " "risks for our social progress. Zuboff’s book features beautifully wrought " @@ -482,13 +520,13 @@ msgid "" "supercomputers guarantee them perpetual and total world domination." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:361 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:399 msgid "What is persuasion?" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:363 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:401 msgid "" "To understand why you shouldn’t worry about mind-control rays — but why you " "<emphasis>should</emphasis> worry about surveillance " @@ -496,8 +534,8 @@ msgid "" "by <quote>persuasion.</quote>" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:369 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:407 msgid "" "Google, Facebook, and other surveillance capitalists promise their customers " "(the advertisers) that if they use machine-learning tools trained on " @@ -507,15 +545,15 @@ msgid "" "purchases, votes, and other desired outcomes." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:378 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><blockquote><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:416 msgid "" "The impact of dominance far exceeds the impact of manipulation and should be " "central to our analysis and any remedies we seek." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:383 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:421 msgid "" "But there’s little evidence that this is happening. Instead, the predictions " "that surveillance capitalism delivers to its customers are much less " @@ -524,13 +562,13 @@ msgid "" "things:" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:390 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:428 msgid "1. Segmenting" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:392 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:430 msgid "" "If you’re selling diapers, you have better luck if you pitch them to people " "in maternity wards. Not everyone who enters or leaves a maternity ward just " @@ -541,8 +579,8 @@ msgid "" "for baby products, who haunt maternity wards with baskets full of freebies)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:403 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:441 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalism is segmenting times a billion. Diaper vendors can go " "way beyond people in maternity wards (though they can do that, too, with " @@ -556,23 +594,23 @@ msgid "" "the like convincingly claim that’s not happening — yet)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:417 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:455 msgid "This is seriously creepy." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:420 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:458 msgid "But it’s not mind control." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:423 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:461 msgid "It doesn’t deprive you of your free will. It doesn’t trick you." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:426 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:464 msgid "" "Think of how surveillance capitalism works in politics. Surveillance " "capitalist companies sell political operatives the power to locate people " @@ -584,8 +622,8 @@ msgid "" "fliers at John Birch Society meetings." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:437 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:475 msgid "" "But this is an inexact and thus wasteful practice. The union organizer can’t " "know which worker to approach on the way out of the factory gates and may " @@ -596,8 +634,8 @@ msgid "" "Charlottesville, Virginia." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:447 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:485 msgid "" "Because targeting improves the yields on political pitches, it can " "accelerate the pace of political upheaval by making it possible for everyone " @@ -609,8 +647,8 @@ msgid "" "that marched in Charlottesville." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:458 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:496 msgid "" "It’s important to differentiate this kind of political organizing from " "influence campaigns; finding people who secretly agree with you isn’t the " @@ -621,8 +659,8 @@ msgid "" "queer all along." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:467 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:505 msgid "" "But the personal accounts of those who have come out tell a different story " "where people who long harbored a secret about their gender were emboldened " @@ -632,13 +670,13 @@ msgid "" "ideas." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:476 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:514 msgid "2. Deception" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:478 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:516 msgid "" "Lies and fraud are pernicious, and surveillance capitalism supercharges them " "through targeting. If you want to sell a fraudulent payday loan or subprime " @@ -651,8 +689,8 @@ msgid "" "loans." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:490 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:528 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalism also abets fraud by making it easy to locate other " "people who have been similarly deceived, forming a community of people who " @@ -663,8 +701,8 @@ msgid "" "product." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:500 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:538 msgid "" "Sometimes, online deception involves replacing someone’s correct beliefs " "with incorrect ones, as it does in the anti-vaccination movement, whose " @@ -673,8 +711,8 @@ msgid "" "belief that vaccines are harmful." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:507 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:545 msgid "" "But it’s much more common for fraud to succeed when it doesn’t have to " "displace a true belief. When my daughter contracted head lice at daycare, " @@ -686,8 +724,8 @@ msgid "" "know what they’re doing." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:518 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:556 msgid "" "This is pernicious and difficult — and it’s also the kind of thing the " "internet can help guard against by making true information available, " @@ -704,13 +742,13 @@ msgid "" "displaced by a false one by means of sophisticated persuasion." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:535 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:573 msgid "3. Domination" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:537 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:575 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalism is the result of monopoly. Monopoly is the cause, " "and surveillance capitalism and its negative outcomes are the effects of " @@ -720,8 +758,8 @@ msgid "" "nascent competitors, and expanding to control whole market verticals." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:546 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:584 msgid "" "One example of how monopolism aids in persuasion is through dominance: " "Google makes editorial decisions about its algorithms that determine the " @@ -735,8 +773,8 @@ msgid "" "people will be deceived." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:559 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:597 msgid "" "Google’s dominance over search — more than 86% of web searches are performed " "through Google — means that the way it orders its search results has an " @@ -749,8 +787,8 @@ msgid "" "company that is too big to audit: break it up into smaller pieces." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:571 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:609 msgid "" "Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism a <quote>rogue capitalism</quote> whose " "data-hoarding and machine-learning techniques rob us of our free will. But " @@ -765,13 +803,13 @@ msgid "" "should be central to our analysis and any remedies we seek." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:586 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:624 msgid "4. Bypassing our rational faculties" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:588 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:626 msgid "" "<emphasis>This</emphasis> is the good stuff: using machine learning, " "<quote>dark patterns,</quote> engagement hacking, and other techniques to " @@ -779,8 +817,8 @@ msgid "" "control." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:594 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:632 msgid "" "Some of these techniques have proven devastatingly effective (if only in the " "short term). The use of countdown timers on a purchase completion page can " @@ -794,8 +832,8 @@ msgid "" "<quote>our</quote> things stay ours." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:607 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:645 msgid "" "Games are extraordinarily good at this. <quote>Free to play</quote> games " "manipulate us through many techniques, such as presenting players with a " @@ -807,8 +845,8 @@ msgid "" "level." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:618 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:656 msgid "" "Companies have risen and fallen on these techniques, and the " "<quote>fallen</quote> part is worth paying attention to. In general, living " @@ -819,8 +857,8 @@ msgid "" "when it stops again." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:628 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:666 msgid "" "That’s why behavioral conditioning uses <quote>intermittent reinforcement " "schedules.</quote> Instead of giving you a steady drip of encouragement or " @@ -829,8 +867,8 @@ msgid "" "can never quite find the pattern that would make it boring." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:636 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:674 msgid "" "Intermittent reinforcement is a powerful behavioral tool, but it also " "represents a collective action problem for surveillance capitalism. The " @@ -845,8 +883,8 @@ msgid "" "make use of whatever seems to be working at the time." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:651 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:689 msgid "" "From the surveillance capitalist’s point of view, our adaptive capacity is " "like a harmful bacterium that deprives it of its food source — our attention " @@ -862,8 +900,8 @@ msgid "" "base had halved." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:666 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:704 msgid "" "Not everyone, of course. Some people never adapt to stimulus, just as some " "people never stop hearing the hum of the refrigerator. This is why most " @@ -873,8 +911,8 @@ msgid "" "collapse." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:674 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:712 msgid "" "But surveillance capitalism’s margins on behavioral modification " "suck. Tripling the rate at which someone buys a widget sounds great <ulink " @@ -884,8 +922,8 @@ msgid "" "while surveillance capitalism rakes in infinitesimal penny fractions." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:684 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:722 msgid "" "Slot machines’ high returns mean that they can be profitable just by " "draining the fortunes of the small rump of people who are pathologically " @@ -903,21 +941,21 @@ msgid "" "every success." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:702 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><sect2><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:740 msgid "" "The vulnerability of small segments of the population to dramatic, efficient " "corporate manipulation is a real concern that’s worthy of our attention and " "energy. But it’s not an existential threat to society." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:709 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:747 msgid "If data is the new oil, then surveillance capitalism’s engine has a leak" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:712 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:750 msgid "" "This adaptation problem offers an explanation for one of surveillance " "capitalism’s most alarming traits: its relentless hunger for data and its " @@ -926,8 +964,8 @@ msgid "" "parties." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:719 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:757 msgid "" "Zuboff observes this phenomenon and concludes that data must be very " "valuable if surveillance capitalism is so hungry for it. (In her words: " @@ -943,15 +981,15 @@ msgid "" "just to stay in the same spot?" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:734 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:772 msgid "" "Of course, all of Big Tech’s persuasion techniques work in concert with one " "another, and collecting data is useful beyond mere behavioral trickery." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:739 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:777 msgid "" "If someone wants to recruit you to buy a refrigerator or join a pogrom, they " "might use profiling and targeting to send messages to people they judge to " @@ -966,8 +1004,8 @@ msgid "" "someone like you." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:753 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:791 msgid "" "Each phase of this process benefits from surveillance: The more data they " "have, the more precisely they can profile you and target you with specific " @@ -976,8 +1014,8 @@ msgid "" "rebate in April." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:760 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:798 msgid "" "Also, the more data they have, the better they can craft deceptive messages " "— if I know that you’re into genealogy, I might not try to feed you " @@ -986,8 +1024,8 @@ msgid "" "replacement</quote> and the like." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:767 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:805 msgid "" "Facebook also helps you locate people who have the same odious or antisocial " "views as you. It makes it possible to find other people who want to carry " @@ -998,8 +1036,8 @@ msgid "" "Earth is flat." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:777 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:815 msgid "" "There is one way in which targeted advertising uniquely benefits those " "advocating for socially unacceptable causes: It is invisible. Racism is " @@ -1014,8 +1052,8 @@ msgid "" "people who don’t want refrigerators, resulting in a lot of wasted expense." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:792 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:830 msgid "" "But even if you wanted to advertise your Nazi movement on a billboard or " "prime-time TV or the sports section, you would struggle to find anyone " @@ -1024,8 +1062,8 @@ msgid "" "damage, etc.) from other people who disagree with your views." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:800 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:838 msgid "" "Targeted ads solve this problem: On the internet, every ad unit can be " "different for every person, meaning that you can buy ads that are only shown " @@ -1037,8 +1075,8 @@ msgid "" "or billboard owner who might want to run a Nazi ad." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:811 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:849 msgid "" "Online ads are placed by algorithms that broker between a diverse ecosystem " "of self-serve ad platforms that anyone can buy an ad through, so the Nazi ad " @@ -1052,8 +1090,8 @@ msgid "" "publication and that the publication has no idea who its advertisers are." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:825 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:863 msgid "" "These layers of indirection between advertisers and publishers serve as " "moral buffers: Today’s moral consensus is largely that publishers shouldn’t " @@ -1062,16 +1100,16 @@ msgid "" "able to overcome significant barriers to organizing their movement." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:833 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:871 msgid "" "Data has a complex relationship with domination. Being able to spy on your " "customers can alert you to their preferences for your rivals and allow you " "to head off your rivals at the pass." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:838 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:876 msgid "" "More importantly, if you can dominate the information space while also " "gathering data, then you make other deceptive tactics stronger because it’s " @@ -1081,8 +1119,8 @@ msgid "" "domination deprives your target of an escape route." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:847 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:885 msgid "" "If you’re a Nazi who wants to ensure that your prospects primarily see " "deceptive, confirming information when they search for more, you can improve " @@ -1093,8 +1131,8 @@ msgid "" "search results." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:856 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:894 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalists are like stage mentalists who claim that their " "extraordinary insights into human behavior let them guess the word that you " @@ -1102,8 +1140,8 @@ msgid "" "cameras, sleight of hand, and brute-force memorization to amaze you." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:863 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:901 msgid "" "Or perhaps they’re more like pick-up artists, the misogynistic cult that " "promises to help awkward men have sex with women by teaching them " @@ -1113,8 +1151,8 @@ msgid "" "lower their self-esteem and prick their interest." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:871 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:909 msgid "" "Some pick-up artists eventually manage to convince women to go home with " "them, but it’s not because these men have figured out how to bypass women’s " @@ -1126,8 +1164,8 @@ msgid "" "soon as they could." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:882 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:920 msgid "" "Pick-up artists <emphasis>believe</emphasis> they have figured out a secret " "back door that bypasses women’s critical faculties, but they haven’t. Many " @@ -1137,8 +1175,8 @@ msgid "" "the men who use them as irredeemable losers." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:891 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:929 msgid "" "Pick-up artists are proof that people can believe they have developed a " "system of mind control <emphasis>even when it doesn’t " @@ -1157,8 +1195,8 @@ msgid "" "secrets of pick-up artistry." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:909 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:947 msgid "" "Department store pioneer John Wanamaker is said to have lamented, " "<quote>Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I " @@ -1169,13 +1207,13 @@ msgid "" "at convincing the general public to buy their clients’ wares." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:919 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:957 msgid "What is Facebook?" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:921 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:959 msgid "" "Facebook is heralded as the origin of all of our modern plagues, and it’s " "not hard to see why. Some tech companies want to lock their users in but " @@ -1188,8 +1226,8 @@ msgid "" "users <emphasis>and</emphasis> spying on them all the time." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:933 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:971 msgid "" "Facebook’s surveillance regime is really without parallel in the Western " "world. Though Facebook tries to prevent itself from being visible on the " @@ -1203,15 +1241,15 @@ msgid "" "site — newspapers, dating sites, message boards — to Facebook." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:947 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><blockquote><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:985 msgid "" "Big Tech is able to practice surveillance not just because it is tech but " "because it is <emphasis>big</emphasis>." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:952 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:990 msgid "" "Facebook offers similar tools to app developers, so the apps — games, fart " "machines, business review services, apps for keeping abreast of your kid’s " @@ -1224,8 +1262,8 @@ msgid "" "web." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:963 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1001 msgid "" "Though it’s easy to integrate the web with Facebook — linking to news " "stories and such — Facebook products are generally not available to be " @@ -1238,8 +1276,8 @@ msgid "" "of other services that you use." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:975 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1013 msgid "" "And Facebook is incredibly popular, with 2.3 billion claimed users (though " "many believe this figure to be inflated). Facebook has been used to organize " @@ -1251,15 +1289,15 @@ msgid "" "out to anyone with a few bucks to spend." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:986 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1024 msgid "" "To understand what role Facebook plays in the formulation and mobilization " "of antisocial movements, we need to understand the dual nature of Facebook." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:991 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1029 msgid "" "Because it has a lot of users and a lot of data about those users, Facebook " "is a very efficient tool for locating people with hard-to-find traits, the " @@ -1275,8 +1313,8 @@ msgid "" "fridge." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1006 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1044 msgid "" "Facebook makes finding people shopping for refrigerators a " "<emphasis>lot</emphasis> easier. It can target ads to people who’ve " @@ -1292,8 +1330,8 @@ msgid "" "be subjected to traditional, offline targeted refrigerator marketing." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1022 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1060 msgid "" "Facebook also makes it a lot easier to find people who have the same rare " "disease as you, which might have been impossible in earlier eras — the " @@ -1303,8 +1341,8 @@ msgid "" "the four corners of the Earth." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1030 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1068 msgid "" "Facebook also makes it much easier to find people who hold the same rare " "political beliefs as you. If you’ve always harbored a secret affinity for " @@ -1318,8 +1356,8 @@ msgid "" "people in your life." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1043 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1081 msgid "" "All of this presents a dilemma for Facebook: Targeting makes the company’s " "ads more effective than traditional ads, but it also lets advertisers see " @@ -1332,8 +1370,8 @@ msgid "" "every case." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1054 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1092 msgid "" "To make things worse, many Facebook groups spark precious little " "discussion. Your little-league soccer team, the people with the same rare " @@ -1343,8 +1381,8 @@ msgid "" "hockey-card collectors." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1062 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1100 msgid "" "With nothing but <quote>organic</quote> discussion, Facebook would not " "generate enough traffic to sell enough ads to make the money it needs to " @@ -1352,8 +1390,8 @@ msgid "" "sums to its investors." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1068 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1106 msgid "" "So Facebook has to gin up traffic by sidetracking its own forums: Every time " "Facebook’s algorithm injects controversial materials — inflammatory " @@ -1365,8 +1403,8 @@ msgid "" "figuring out things that people will get angry about." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1079 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1117 msgid "" "Facebook <emphasis>can</emphasis> modify our behavior but only in a couple " "of trivial ways. First, it can lock in all your friends and family members " @@ -1378,8 +1416,8 @@ msgid "" "control, and it can only really make us miserable, angry, and anxious." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1090 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1128 msgid "" "This is why Facebook’s targeting systems — both the ones it shows to " "advertisers and the ones that let users find people who share their " @@ -1390,8 +1428,8 @@ msgid "" "against being nonconsensually eyeball-fucked with Donald Trump headlines." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1100 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1138 msgid "" "The more time you spend on Facebook, the more ads it gets to show you. The " "solution to Facebook’s ads only working one in a thousand times is for the " @@ -1404,13 +1442,13 @@ msgid "" "it eventually shows you at least one ad that you respond to." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1112 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1150 msgid "Monopoly and the right to the future tense" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1114 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1152 msgid "" "Zuboff and her cohort are particularly alarmed at the extent to which " "surveillance allows corporations to influence our decisions, taking away " @@ -1418,8 +1456,8 @@ msgid "" "— that is, the right to decide for yourself what you will do in the future." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1121 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1159 msgid "" "It’s true that advertising can tip the scales one way or another: When " "you’re thinking of buying a fridge, a timely fridge ad might end the search " @@ -1431,8 +1469,8 @@ msgid "" "risks from their dreams coming true are very speculative." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1132 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1170 msgid "" "By contrast, Zuboff is rather sanguine about 40 years of lax antitrust " "practice that has allowed a handful of companies to dominate the internet, " @@ -1442,8 +1480,8 @@ msgid "" "screenshots of the other four." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1140 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1178 msgid "" "However, if we are to be alarmed that we might lose the right to choose for " "ourselves what our future will hold, then monopoly’s nonspeculative, " @@ -1451,8 +1489,8 @@ msgid "" "tech policy." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1146 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1184 msgid "" "Start with <quote>digital rights management.</quote> In 1998, Bill Clinton " "signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) into law. It’s a complex " @@ -1460,8 +1498,8 @@ msgid "" "Section 1201, the <quote>anti-circumvention</quote> rule." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1152 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1190 msgid "" "This is a blanket ban on tampering with systems that restrict access to " "copyrighted works. The ban is so thoroughgoing that it prohibits removing a " @@ -1471,8 +1509,8 @@ msgid "" "manufacturers’ commercial plans." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1160 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1198 msgid "" "For example, Section 1201’s first major application was on DVD players as a " "means of enforcing the region coding built into those devices. DVD-CCA, the " @@ -1485,8 +1523,8 @@ msgid "" "reject it." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1172 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1210 msgid "" "However, watching a lawfully produced disc in a country other than the one " "where you purchased it is not copyright infringement — it’s the " @@ -1496,8 +1534,8 @@ msgid "" "with one another." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1180 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1218 msgid "" "The fact that a movie studio wants to charge Indians less than Americans or " "release in Australia later than it releases in the U.K. has no bearing on " @@ -1505,8 +1543,8 @@ msgid "" "infringement to watch it no matter where you happen to be." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1187 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1225 msgid "" "So DVD and DVD player manufacturers would not be able to use accusations of " "abetting copyright infringement to punish manufacturers who made " @@ -1515,8 +1553,8 @@ msgid "" "programmers who created programs to let you do this." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1195 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1233 msgid "" "That’s where Section 1201 of the DMCA comes in: By banning tampering with an " "<quote>access control,</quote> the rule gave manufacturers and rights " @@ -1525,47 +1563,47 @@ msgid "" "players)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1202 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1240 msgid "" "This is an odious scam against consumers, but as time went by, Section 1201 " "grew to encompass a rapidly expanding constellation of devices and services " "as canny manufacturers have realized certain things:" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><itemizedlist><listitem><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1210 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><itemizedlist><listitem><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1248 msgid "" "Any device with software in it contains a <quote>copyrighted work</quote> — " "i.e., the software." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><itemizedlist><listitem><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1216 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><itemizedlist><listitem><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1254 msgid "" "A device can be designed so that reconfiguring the software requires " "bypassing an <quote>access control for copyrighted works,</quote> which is a " "potential felony under Section 1201." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><itemizedlist><listitem><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1223 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><itemizedlist><listitem><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1261 msgid "" "Thus, companies can control their customers’ behavior after they take home " "their purchases by designing products so that all unpermitted uses require " "modifications that fall afoul of Section 1201." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1231 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1269 msgid "" "Section 1201 then becomes a means for manufacturers of all descriptions to " "force their customers to arrange their affairs to benefit the manufacturers’ " "shareholders instead of themselves." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1236 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1274 msgid "" "This manifests in many ways: from a new generation of inkjet printers that " "use countermeasures to prevent third-party ink that cannot be bypassed " @@ -1575,8 +1613,8 @@ msgid "" "manufacturer’s unlock code." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1245 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1283 msgid "" "Closer to home, Apple’s iPhones use these measures to prevent both " "third-party service and third-party software installation. This allows Apple " @@ -1589,8 +1627,8 @@ msgid "" "to hold onto their phones for longer rather than replacing them." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1258 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1296 msgid "" "Apple’s use of copyright locks also allows it to establish a monopoly over " "how its customers acquire software for their mobile devices. The App Store’s " @@ -1601,8 +1639,8 @@ msgid "" "either charge more or accept lower profits for their products." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1268 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1306 msgid "" "Crucially, Apple’s use of copyright locks gives it the power to make " "editorial decisions about which apps you may and may not install on your own " @@ -1617,8 +1655,8 @@ msgid "" "to a game</ulink> that commented on the Israel-Palestine conflict." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1281 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1319 msgid "" "Apple often justifies monopoly power over software installation in the name " "of security, arguing that its vetting of apps for its store means that it " @@ -1633,8 +1671,8 @@ msgid "" "VPNs that would protect them from Chinese state snooping." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1295 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1333 msgid "" "Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism a <quote>rogue capitalism.</quote> " "Theoreticians of capitalism claim that its virtue is that it <ulink " @@ -1647,8 +1685,8 @@ msgid "" "capitalism’s mind-control rays." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1306 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1344 msgid "" "If our concern is that markets cease to function when consumers can no " "longer make choices, then copyright locks should concern us at " @@ -1659,13 +1697,13 @@ msgid "" "it." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1315 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1353 msgid "Search order and the right to the future tense" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1317 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1355 msgid "" "Markets are posed as a kind of magic: By discovering otherwise hidden " "information conveyed by the free choices of consumers, those consumers’ " @@ -1678,8 +1716,8 @@ msgid "" "election whose candidates are chosen by the monopolist." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1329 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1367 msgid "" "This ballot rigging is made more pernicious by the existence of monopolies " "over search order. Google’s search market share is about 90%. When Google’s " @@ -1692,8 +1730,8 @@ msgid "" "millions will come away convinced that vaccines are dangerous." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1341 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1379 msgid "" "Google’s algorithm is often tricked into serving disinformation as a " "prominent search result. But in these cases, Google isn’t persuading people " @@ -1701,8 +1739,8 @@ msgid "" "the user has no cause to doubt it." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1347 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1385 msgid "" "This is true whether the search is for <quote>Are vaccines " "dangerous?</quote> or <quote>best restaurants near me.</quote> Most users " @@ -1715,8 +1753,8 @@ msgid "" "techniques." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1358 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1396 msgid "" "Many of the questions we ask search engines have no empirically correct " "answers: <quote>Where should I eat dinner?</quote> is not an objective " @@ -1729,8 +1767,8 @@ msgid "" "place." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1369 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1407 msgid "" "Google’s search dominance isn’t a matter of pure merit: The company has " "leveraged many tactics that would have been prohibited under classical, " @@ -1746,8 +1784,8 @@ msgid "" "that competed with the shippers whose freight they carried." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1385 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1423 msgid "" "If we’re worried about giant companies subverting markets by stripping " "consumers of their ability to make free choices, then vigorous antitrust " @@ -1758,8 +1796,8 @@ msgid "" "would not have such an outsized effect on consumer choice." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1395 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1433 msgid "" "This goes for many other companies. Amazon, a classic surveillance " "capitalist, is obviously the dominant tool for searching Amazon — though " @@ -1775,8 +1813,8 @@ msgid "" "ability to shape markets by making informed choices." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1410 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1448 msgid "" "Not every monopolist is a surveillance capitalist, but that doesn’t mean " "they’re not able to shape consumer choices in wide-ranging ways. Zuboff " @@ -1791,8 +1829,8 @@ msgid "" "free-market researchers, then forcing them out of any markets they discover." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1425 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1463 msgid "" "Because of its use of copyright locks, Apple’s mobile customers are not " "legally allowed to switch to a rival retailer for its apps if they want to " @@ -1805,13 +1843,13 @@ msgid "" "by surveillance capitalism’s ad-serving bots." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1437 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1475 msgid "Monopolists can afford sleeping pills for watchdogs" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1439 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1477 msgid "" "Only the most extreme market ideologues think that markets can self-regulate " "without state oversight. Markets need watchdogs — regulators, lawmakers, and " @@ -1822,8 +1860,8 @@ msgid "" "holding them to account." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1449 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1487 msgid "" "But this kind of regulatory capture doesn’t come cheap. In competitive " "sectors, where rivals are constantly eroding one another’s margins, " @@ -1831,8 +1869,8 @@ msgid "" "regulations that serve their ends." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1455 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1493 msgid "" "Many of the harms of surveillance capitalism are the result of weak or " "nonexistent regulation. Those regulatory vacuums spring from the power of " @@ -1840,8 +1878,8 @@ msgid "" "exists to permit their existing businesses." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1461 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1499 msgid "" "Here’s an example: When firms over-collect and over-retain our data, they " "are at increased risk of suffering a breach — you can’t leak data you never " @@ -1851,15 +1889,15 @@ msgid "" "data breached and the sensitivity of that data." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1470 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1508 msgid "" "But still, firms continue to over-collect and over-retain our data for three " "reasons:" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1474 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1512 msgid "" "<emphasis role=\"strong\">1. They are locked in the aforementioned limbic " "arms race with our capacity to shore up our attentional defense systems to " @@ -1872,8 +1910,8 @@ msgid "" "inured to the pitch." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1486 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1524 msgid "" "<emphasis role=\"strong\">2. They believe the surveillance capitalism " "story.</emphasis> Data is cheap to aggregate and store, and both proponents " @@ -1887,8 +1925,8 @@ msgid "" "else at an even greater price." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1499 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1537 msgid "" "<emphasis role=\"strong\">3. The penalties for leaking data are " "negligible.</emphasis> Most countries limit these penalties to actual " @@ -1900,8 +1938,8 @@ msgid "" "largely ineffectual credit-monitoring service." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1510 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1548 msgid "" "But the harms from breaches are much more extensive than these " "actual-damages rules capture. Identity thieves and fraudsters are wily and " @@ -1913,8 +1951,8 @@ msgid "" "these future harms." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1520 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1558 msgid "" "However, even the most ambitious privacy rules, such as the EU General Data " "Protection Regulation, fall far short of capturing the negative " @@ -1923,8 +1961,8 @@ msgid "" "pursued by regulators." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1527 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1565 msgid "" "This tolerance of — or indifference to — data over-collection and " "over-retention can be ascribed in part to the sheer lobbying muscle of the " @@ -1933,8 +1971,8 @@ msgid "" "them to internalize the costs of their surveillance activities." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1535 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1573 msgid "" "And then there’s state surveillance, which the surveillance capitalism story " "dismisses as a relic of another era when the big worry was being jailed for " @@ -1942,8 +1980,8 @@ msgid "" "learning." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1541 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1579 msgid "" "But state surveillance and private surveillance are intimately related. As " "we saw when Apple was conscripted by the Chinese government as a vital " @@ -1953,8 +1991,8 @@ msgid "" "services." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1549 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1587 msgid "" "Whether it’s Google being used as a location tracking tool by local law " "enforcement across the U.S. or the use of social media tracking by the " @@ -1972,8 +2010,8 @@ msgid "" "surveillance without mass commercial surveillance." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1567 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1605 msgid "" "Monopolism is key to the project of mass state surveillance. It’s true that " "smaller tech firms are apt to be less well-defended than Big Tech, whose " @@ -1984,8 +2022,8 @@ msgid "" "time by state actors." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1576 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1614 msgid "" "A concentrated tech sector that works with authorities is a much more " "powerful ally in the project of mass state surveillance than a fragmented " @@ -2000,8 +2038,8 @@ msgid "" "government relations departments." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1590 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1628 msgid "" "They can even make a good case for doing this: After all, when there are " "only four or five big companies in an industry, everyone qualified to " @@ -2011,15 +2049,15 @@ msgid "" "at one of the other ones." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1599 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><blockquote><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1637 msgid "" "While surveillance doesn’t cause monopolies, monopolies certainly abet " "surveillance." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1604 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1642 msgid "" "Industries that are competitive are fragmented — composed of companies that " "are at each other’s throats all the time and eroding one another’s margins " @@ -2029,8 +2067,8 @@ msgid "" "a whole." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1612 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1650 msgid "" "Surveillance combined with machine learning is supposed to be an existential " "crisis, a species-defining moment at which our free will is just a few more " @@ -2039,13 +2077,13 @@ msgid "" "threat to our society and possibly our species." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1620 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1658 msgid "But that threat grows out of monopoly." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1623 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1661 msgid "" "One of the consequences of tech’s regulatory capture is that it can shift " "liability for poor security decisions onto its customers and the wider " @@ -2055,8 +2093,8 @@ msgid "" "products." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1631 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1669 msgid "" "IT is the only field in which this is practiced: No one builds a bridge or a " "hospital and keeps the composition of the steel or the equations used to " @@ -2066,8 +2104,8 @@ msgid "" "are deployed in the field and put into sensitive places." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1640 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1678 msgid "" "The monopoly power that keeps any meaningful consequences for breaches at " "bay means that tech companies continue to build terrible products that are " @@ -2078,8 +2116,8 @@ msgid "" "decisions have been seriously punished in the market." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1650 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1688 msgid "" "These bad security decisions are compounded yet again by the use of " "copyright locks to enforce business-model decisions against " @@ -2089,8 +2127,8 @@ msgid "" "property." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1658 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1696 msgid "" "Recall also that these copyright locks are backstopped by legislation (such " "as Section 1201 of the DMCA or Article 6 of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive) " @@ -2099,8 +2137,8 @@ msgid "" "disclosures about vulnerabilities without permission from manufacturers." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1666 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1704 msgid "" "This amounts to a manufacturer’s veto over safety warnings and " "criticism. While this is far from the legislative intent of the DMCA and its " @@ -2109,8 +2147,8 @@ msgid "" "powerful, large firms whose lobbying muscle is unstoppable." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1674 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1712 msgid "" "Copyright locks are a double whammy: They create bad security decisions that " "can’t be freely investigated or discussed. If markets are supposed to be " @@ -2122,8 +2160,8 @@ msgid "" "capitalism’s influence campaigns." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1684 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1722 msgid "" "And unlike mind-control rays, enforced silence over security is an " "immediate, documented problem, and it <emphasis>does</emphasis> constitute " @@ -2134,8 +2172,8 @@ msgid "" "of technology debt." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1693 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1731 msgid "" "In software design, <quote>technology debt</quote> refers to old, baked-in " "decisions that turn out to be bad ones in hindsight. Perhaps a long-ago " @@ -2153,8 +2191,8 @@ msgid "" "up and <quote>pay off the debt</quote> once and for all." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1711 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1749 msgid "" "Typically, technology debt results in a technological bankruptcy: The " "product gets so brittle and unsustainable that it fails " @@ -2166,8 +2204,8 @@ msgid "" "house due to bankruptcy is scary and traumatic." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1722 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1760 msgid "" "But the technology debt created by copyright locks isn’t individual debt; " "it’s systemic. Everyone in the world is exposed to this over-leverage, as " @@ -2179,13 +2217,13 @@ msgid "" "unauditable copyright locks — it will indeed pose an existential risk." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1734 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1772 msgid "Privacy and monopoly" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1736 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1774 msgid "" "Many tech companies are gripped by an orthodoxy that holds that if they just " "gather enough data on enough of our activities, everything else is possible " @@ -2198,8 +2236,8 @@ msgid "" "once more data is in hand." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1748 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1786 msgid "" "Surveillance tech is far from the first industry to embrace a nonsensical, " "self-serving belief that harms the rest of the world, and it is not the " @@ -2212,16 +2250,16 @@ msgid "" "formerly respectable titans of discredited industries." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1760 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1798 msgid "" "This is not to say that there’s nothing wrong with Big Tech and its " "ideological addiction to data. While surveillance’s benefits are mostly " "overstated, its harms are, if anything, <emphasis>understated</emphasis>." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1766 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1804 msgid "" "There’s real irony here. The belief in surveillance capitalism as a " "<quote>rogue capitalism</quote> is driven by the belief that markets " @@ -2230,8 +2268,8 @@ msgid "" "digging dry wells after all." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1773 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1811 msgid "" "But monopolists get to do terrible things for a long time before they pay " "the price. Think of how concentration in the finance sector allowed the " @@ -2247,8 +2285,8 @@ msgid "" "2008, bringing home more profits and paying their execs even larger sums." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1788 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1826 msgid "" "Big Tech is able to practice surveillance not just because it is tech but " "because it is <emphasis>big</emphasis>. The reason every web publisher " @@ -2258,8 +2296,8 @@ msgid "" "contains them (see also: Google Analytics embeds, Twitter buttons, etc.)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1797 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1835 msgid "" "The reason the world’s governments have been slow to create meaningful " "penalties for privacy breaches is that Big Tech’s concentration produces " @@ -2268,15 +2306,15 @@ msgid "" "a unified negotiating position that supercharges the lobbying." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1805 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1843 msgid "" "The reason that the smartest engineers in the world want to work for Big " "Tech is that Big Tech commands the lion’s share of tech industry jobs." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1810 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1848 msgid "" "The reason people who are aghast at Facebook’s and Google’s and Amazon’s " "data-handling practices continue to use these services is that all their " @@ -2284,8 +2322,8 @@ msgid "" "local merchants out of business." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1816 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1854 msgid "" "Competitive markets would weaken the companies’ lobbying muscle by reducing " "their profits and pitting them against each other in regulatory forums. It " @@ -2297,20 +2335,20 @@ msgid "" "and make the case against Facebook and Google and Twitter embeds." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1827 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1865 msgid "" "In other words, while surveillance doesn’t cause monopolies, monopolies " "certainly abet surveillance." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1831 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1869 msgid "Ronald Reagan, pioneer of tech monopolism" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1833 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1871 msgid "" "Technology exceptionalism is a sin, whether it’s practiced by technology’s " "blind proponents or by its critics. Both of these camps are prone to " @@ -2323,8 +2361,8 @@ msgid "" "to break up the monopolies." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1845 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1883 msgid "" "To understand how tech became so monopolistic, it’s useful to look at the " "dawn of the consumer tech industry: 1979, the year the Apple II Plus " @@ -2337,8 +2375,8 @@ msgid "" "enact similar reforms that eventually spread around the world." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1857 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1895 msgid "" "Antitrust’s story began nearly a century before all that with laws like the " "Sherman Act, which took aim at monopolists on the grounds that monopolies " @@ -2349,8 +2387,8 @@ msgid "" "away with a host of evils." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1866 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1904 msgid "" "Then came a fabulist named Robert Bork, a former solicitor general who " "Reagan appointed to the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit " @@ -2362,8 +2400,8 @@ msgid "" "higher prices." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1876 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1914 msgid "" "Bork was a crank, but he was a crank with a theory that rich people really " "liked. Monopolies are a great way to make rich people richer by allowing " @@ -2373,8 +2411,8 @@ msgid "" "environment, and workers." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1884 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1922 msgid "" "Bork’s theories were especially palatable to the same power brokers who " "backed Reagan, and Reagan’s Department of Justice and other agencies began " @@ -2385,8 +2423,8 @@ msgid "" "political performance)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1893 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1931 msgid "" "Little by little, Bork’s theories entered the mainstream, and their backers " "began to infiltrate the legal education field, even putting on junkets where " @@ -2397,8 +2435,8 @@ msgid "" "disposal to lobby for even more Borkian antitrust influence campaigns." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1903 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1941 msgid "" "The history of Bork’s antitrust theories is a really good example of the " "kind of covertly engineered shifts in public opinion that Zuboff warns us " @@ -2411,8 +2449,8 @@ msgid "" "coherent ideology that elevated inequality to a virtue." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1915 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1953 msgid "" "Today, many fear that machine learning allows surveillance capitalism to " "sell <quote>Bork-as-a-Service,</quote> at internet speeds, so that you can " @@ -2426,8 +2464,8 @@ msgid "" "sales literature." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1928 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1966 msgid "" "The idea that tech forms <quote>natural monopolies</quote> (monopolies that " "are the inevitable result of the realities of an industry, such as the " @@ -2441,8 +2479,8 @@ msgid "" "funeral at a time)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1940 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1978 msgid "" "Indeed, the birth of the web saw a mass-extinction event for the existing " "giant, wildly profitable proprietary technologies that had capital, network " @@ -2457,8 +2495,8 @@ msgid "" "wrong and ended up being absorbed into the public web." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1954 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1992 msgid "" "Yes, tech is heavily monopolized and is now closely associated with industry " "concentration, but this has more to do with a matter of timing than its " @@ -2471,8 +2509,8 @@ msgid "" "so on." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1966 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2004 msgid "" "In support of this thesis, I offer the concentration that every " "<emphasis>other</emphasis> industry has undergone over the same period. From " @@ -2488,8 +2526,8 @@ msgid "" "but are not any longer." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1981 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2019 msgid "" "Again: When you change the laws intended to prevent monopolies and then " "monopolies form in exactly the way the law was supposed to prevent, it is " @@ -2503,13 +2541,13 @@ msgid "" "capitalism intact." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1993 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2031 msgid "Steering with the windshield wipers" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1995 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2033 msgid "" "It’s been 40 years since Bork’s project to rehabilitate monopolies achieved " "liftoff, and that is a generation and a half, which is plenty of time to " @@ -2520,8 +2558,8 @@ msgid "" "amazement and find it hard to imagine a time when pink connoted masculinity." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2005 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2043 msgid "" "After 40 years of studiously ignoring antitrust analysis and enforcement, " "it’s not surprising that we’ve all but forgotten that antitrust exists, that " @@ -2530,8 +2568,8 @@ msgid "" "integration could land a company in court." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2013 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2051 msgid "" "Antitrust is a market society’s steering wheel, the control of first resort " "to keep would-be masters of the universe in their lanes. But Bork and his " @@ -2543,8 +2581,8 @@ msgid "" "heading before we careen off a cliff." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2023 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2061 msgid "" "It’s like a 1960s science-fiction plot come to life: People stuck in a " "<quote>generation ship,</quote> plying its way across the stars, a ship once " @@ -2555,13 +2593,13 @@ msgid "" "correction, we’re all headed for a fiery death in the heart of a sun." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2033 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2071 msgid "Surveillance still matters" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2035 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2073 msgid "" "None of this is to minimize the problems with surveillance. Surveillance " "matters, and Big Tech’s use of surveillance <emphasis>is</emphasis> an " @@ -2569,8 +2607,8 @@ msgid "" "machine learning rob us of our free will." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2042 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2080 msgid "" "Surveillance has become <emphasis>much</emphasis> more efficient thanks to " "Big Tech. In 1989, the Stasi — the East German secret police — had the whole " @@ -2578,8 +2616,8 @@ msgid "" "every 60 people to serve as an informant or intelligence operative." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2049 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2087 msgid "" "Today, we know that the NSA is spying on a significant fraction of the " "entire world’s population, and its ratio of surveillance operatives to the " @@ -2589,8 +2627,8 @@ msgid "" "involved in NSA spying, but it’s definitely not all of them)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2058 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2096 msgid "" "How did the ratio of surveillable citizens expand from 1:60 to 1:10,000 in " "less than 30 years? It’s thanks to Big Tech. Our devices and services gather " @@ -2611,8 +2649,8 @@ msgid "" "the cost of 9,999 false positives." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2079 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2117 msgid "" "Let me explain that again: If one in a million people is a terrorist, then " "there will only be about one terrorist in a random sample of one million " @@ -2621,8 +2659,8 @@ msgid "" "is 10,000). For every true positive, you’ll get 9,999 false positives." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2087 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2125 msgid "" "In reality, the accuracy of algorithmic terrorism detection falls far short " "of the 99% mark, as does refrigerator ad targeting. The difference is that " @@ -2631,8 +2669,8 @@ msgid "" "the lives of everyone you love." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2094 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2132 msgid "" "Mass state surveillance is only feasible because of surveillance capitalism " "and its extremely low-yield ad-targeting systems, which require a constant " @@ -2642,8 +2680,8 @@ msgid "" "totalitarianism." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2102 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2140 msgid "" "State surveillance is no mere parasite on Big Tech, sucking up its data and " "giving nothing in return. In truth, the two are symbiotes: Big Tech sucks up " @@ -2653,8 +2691,8 @@ msgid "" "and surveillance capitalism; they are dependent on one another." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2111 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2149 msgid "" "To see this at work today, look no further than Amazon’s home surveillance " "device, the Ring doorbell, and its associated app, Neighbors. Ring — a " @@ -2670,8 +2708,8 @@ msgid "" "off-the-books arm of the police without any of the pesky oversight or rules." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2127 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2165 msgid "" "In mid-2019, a series of public records requests revealed that Amazon had " "struck confidential deals with more than 400 local law enforcement agencies " @@ -2684,8 +2722,8 @@ msgid "" "the footage from the company, which it will then produce." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2139 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2177 msgid "" "Ring and law enforcement have found many ways to intertwine their " "activities. Ring strikes secret deals to acquire real-time access to 911 " @@ -2694,8 +2732,8 @@ msgid "" "but isn’t sure whether their neighborhood is dangerous enough to warrant it." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2147 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2185 msgid "" "The more the cops buzz-market the surveillance capitalist Ring, the more " "surveillance capability the state gets. Cops who rely on private entities " @@ -2707,29 +2745,29 @@ msgid "" "rely on them." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2158 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2196 msgid "Dignity and sanctuary" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2160 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2198 msgid "" "But even if we could exercise democratic control over our states and force " "them to stop raiding surveillance capitalism’s reservoirs of behavioral " "data, surveillance capitalism would still harm us." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2165 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2203 msgid "" "This is an area where Zuboff shines. Her chapter on <quote>sanctuary</quote> " "— the feeling of being unobserved — is a beautiful hymn to introspection, " "calmness, mindfulness, and tranquility." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2170 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2208 msgid "" "When you are watched, something changes. Anyone who has ever raised a child " "knows this. You might look up from your book (or more realistically, from " @@ -2746,8 +2784,8 @@ msgid "" "parent." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2186 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2224 msgid "" "In the digital age, our authentic selves are inextricably tied to our " "digital lives. Your search history is a running ledger of the questions " @@ -2756,15 +2794,15 @@ msgid "" "the different facets of your identity, the people you’ve connected with." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2194 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2232 msgid "" "To be observed in these activities is to lose the sanctuary of your " "authentic self." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2198 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2236 msgid "" "There’s another way in which surveillance capitalism robs us of our capacity " "to be our authentic selves: by making us anxious. Surveillance capitalism " @@ -2776,8 +2814,8 @@ msgid "" "systems never quite become inured to it." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2209 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2247 msgid "" "Our devices and services are <quote>general purpose</quote> in that they can " "connect anything or anyone to anything or anyone else and that they can run " @@ -2789,8 +2827,8 @@ msgid "" "recruiting messages from Nazis." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2219 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2257 msgid "" "All day and all night, our pockets buzz, shattering our concentration and " "tearing apart the fragile webs of connection we spin as we think through " @@ -2800,13 +2838,13 @@ msgid "" "the Geneva Conventions</ulink>." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2228 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2266 msgid "Afflicting the afflicted" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2230 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2268 msgid "" "The effects of surveillance on our ability to be our authentic selves are " "not equal for all people. Some of us are lucky enough to live in a time and " @@ -2815,8 +2853,8 @@ msgid "" "of social consequence." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2237 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2275 msgid "" "But for many of us, this is not true. Recall that in living memory, many of " "the ways of being that we think of as socially acceptable today were once " @@ -2827,16 +2865,16 @@ msgid "" "different color than their own, or for smoking weed." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2247 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2285 msgid "" "Today, these activities aren’t just decriminalized in much of the world, " "they’re considered normal, and the fallen prohibitions are viewed as " "shameful, regrettable relics of the past." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2252 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2290 msgid "" "How did we get from prohibition to normalization? Through private, personal " "activity: People who were secretly gay or secret pot-smokers or who secretly " @@ -2850,8 +2888,8 @@ msgid "" "their cause one conversation at a time." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2265 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2303 msgid "" "The right to choose the time and manner of these conversations was key to " "their success. It’s one thing to come out to your dad while you’re on a " @@ -2860,8 +2898,8 @@ msgid "" "make a scene." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2272 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2310 msgid "" "Without a private sphere, there’s a chance that none of these changes would " "have come to pass and that the people who benefited from these changes would " @@ -2869,8 +2907,8 @@ msgid "" "have never been able to reveal their true selves to the people they love." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2279 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2317 msgid "" "The corollary is that, unless you think that our society has attained social " "perfection — that your grandchildren in 50 years will ask you to tell them " @@ -2883,18 +2921,18 @@ msgid "" "sorrow will be the falsity of their relationship to you." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2291 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2329 msgid "A private realm is necessary for human progress." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2294 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2332 msgid "Any data you collect and retain will eventually leak" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2296 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2334 msgid "" "The lack of a private life can rob vulnerable people of the chance to be " "their authentic selves and constrain our actions by depriving us of " @@ -2902,8 +2940,8 @@ msgid "" "people with a secret: crime." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2302 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2340 msgid "" "Personally identifying information is of very limited use for the purpose of " "controlling peoples’ minds, but identity theft — really a catchall term for " @@ -2912,8 +2950,8 @@ msgid "" "expose you to physical danger — thrives on it." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2310 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2348 msgid "" "Attackers are not limited to using data from one breached source, " "either. Multiple services have suffered breaches that exposed names, " @@ -2926,8 +2964,8 @@ msgid "" "use different parts of the data for different criminal purposes." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2322 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2360 msgid "" "For example, attackers can use leaked username and password combinations to " "hijack whole fleets of commercial vehicles that <ulink " @@ -2941,16 +2979,16 @@ msgid "" "take over your email, bank account, and/or cryptocurrency wallets." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2335 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2373 msgid "" "Attackers are endlessly inventive in the pursuit of creative ways to " "weaponize leaked data. One common use of leaked data is to penetrate " "companies in order to access <emphasis>more</emphasis> data." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2340 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2378 msgid "" "Like spies, online fraudsters are totally dependent on companies " "over-collecting and over-retaining our data. Spy agencies sometimes pay " @@ -2960,8 +2998,8 @@ msgid "" "of companies’ databases</ulink>." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2348 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2386 msgid "" "The over-collection of data has a host of terrible social consequences, from " "the erosion of our authentic selves to the undermining of social progress, " @@ -2970,13 +3008,13 @@ msgid "" "that’s the least of our troubles." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2356 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2394 msgid "Critical tech exceptionalism is still tech exceptionalism" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2359 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2397 msgid "" "Big Tech has long practiced technology exceptionalism: the idea that it " "should not be subject to the mundane laws and norms of " @@ -2985,15 +3023,15 @@ msgid "" "rhetoric." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2365 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2403 msgid "" "Tech exceptionalism got us all into a lot of trouble, so it’s ironic and " "distressing to see Big Tech’s critics committing the same sin." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2369 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2407 msgid "" "Big Tech is not a <quote>rogue capitalism</quote> that cannot be cured " "through the traditional anti-monopoly remedies of trustbusting (forcing " @@ -3005,16 +3043,16 @@ msgid "" "ditching our old toolbox." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2379 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2417 msgid "" "The thing is, people have been claiming to have perfected mind-control rays " "for centuries, and every time, it turned out to be a con — though sometimes " "the con artists were also conning themselves." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2385 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2423 msgid "" "For generations, the advertising industry has been steadily improving its " "ability to sell advertising services to businesses while only making " @@ -3025,8 +3063,8 @@ msgid "" "that only half of the money he spent went to waste." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2395 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2433 msgid "" "The tech industry has made enormous improvements in the science of " "convincing businesses that they’re good at advertising while their actual " @@ -3039,8 +3077,8 @@ msgid "" "and underdelivering." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2407 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2445 msgid "" "It’s tempting to think that if businesses are willing to pour billions into " "a venture that the venture must be a good one. Yet there are plenty of times " @@ -3055,8 +3093,8 @@ msgid "" "accumulation, not a sign that managed funds are a good buy." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2421 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2459 msgid "" "The claims of Big Tech’s mind-control system are full of tells that the " "enterprise is a con. For example, <ulink " @@ -3069,8 +3107,8 @@ msgid "" "the realm of marketing hucksters and pop psych</ulink>." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2431 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2469 msgid "" "Big Tech’s promotional materials also claim that their algorithms can " "accurately perform <quote>sentiment analysis</quote> or detect peoples’ " @@ -3085,8 +3123,8 @@ msgid "" "been shown</ulink> to underperform relative to random chance." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2444 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2482 msgid "" "Big Tech has been so good at marketing its own supposed superpowers that " "it’s easy to believe that they can market everything else with similar " @@ -3099,8 +3137,8 @@ msgid "" "its machine-learning fueled persuasion systems work." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2456 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2494 msgid "" "That skepticism should infuse all of our evaluations of Big Tech and its " "supposed abilities, including our perusal of its patents. Zuboff vests these " @@ -3112,8 +3150,8 @@ msgid "" "invitation to exaggeration." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2466 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2504 msgid "" "Patent applications take the form of a series of claims and range from broad " "to narrow. A typical patent starts out by claiming that its authors have " @@ -3129,8 +3167,8 @@ msgid "" "lengthy, expensive process of contesting it." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2481 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2519 msgid "" "What’s more, software patents are routinely granted even though the filer " "doesn’t have any evidence that they can do the thing claimed by the " @@ -3138,8 +3176,8 @@ msgid "" "actually made and that you don’t know how to make." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2487 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2525 msgid "" "With these considerations in hand, it becomes obvious that the fact that a " "Big Tech company has patented what it <emphasis>says</emphasis> is an " @@ -3147,8 +3185,8 @@ msgid "" "fact control our minds." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2494 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2532 msgid "" "Big Tech collects our data for many reasons, including the diminishing " "returns on existing stores of data. But many tech companies also collect " @@ -3159,8 +3197,8 @@ msgid "" "put to use after the first doubles the number of possible fax-to-fax links." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2504 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2542 msgid "" "Data mined for predictive systems doesn’t necessarily produce these " "dividends. Think of Netflix: The predictive value of the data mined from a " @@ -3172,8 +3210,8 @@ msgid "" "labeling and validating data do not get cheaper at scale." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2515 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2553 msgid "" "Businesses pursue fads to the detriment of their profits all the time, " "especially when the businesses and their investors are not motivated by the " @@ -3184,8 +3222,8 @@ msgid "" "quantity of data.</quote>" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2524 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2562 msgid "" "This is another harm of tech exceptionalism: The belief that more data " "always produces more profits in the form of more insights that can be " @@ -3200,15 +3238,15 @@ msgid "" "spend not one penny more than is necessary on protecting data." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2538 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2576 msgid "" "How monopolies, not mind control, drive surveillance capitalism: The " "Snapchat story" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2541 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2579 msgid "" "For the first decade of its existence, Facebook competed with the social " "media giants of the day (Myspace, Orkut, etc.) by presenting itself as the " @@ -3219,8 +3257,8 @@ msgid "" "social media wars like Myspace." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2551 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2589 msgid "" "Despite frequent promises that it would never collect or analyze its users’ " "data, Facebook periodically created initiatives that did just that, like the " @@ -3233,8 +3271,8 @@ msgid "" "Facebook following the launch of the new product or service." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2563 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2601 msgid "" "The pace at which Facebook ramped up its surveillance efforts seems to have " "been set by Facebook’s competitive landscape. The more competitors Facebook " @@ -3244,8 +3282,8 @@ msgid "" "markedly worse</ulink>." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2571 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2609 msgid "" "All the while, Facebook was prodigiously acquiring companies, including a " "company called Onavo. Nominally, Onavo made a battery-monitoring mobile " @@ -3254,8 +3292,8 @@ msgid "" "phones, including which apps they used and how they were using them." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2579 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2617 msgid "" "Through Onavo, Facebook discovered that it was losing market share to " "Snapchat, an app that — like Facebook a decade before — billed itself as the " @@ -3268,8 +3306,8 @@ msgid "" "pressures it had earlier inflicted on Myspace and Orkut." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2591 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2629 msgid "" "The story of how Facebook crushed Snapchat reveals the relationship between " "monopoly and surveillance capitalism. Facebook combined surveillance with " @@ -3282,13 +3320,13 @@ msgid "" "that competes on privacy features." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2603 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2641 msgid "A monopoly over your friends" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2605 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2643 msgid "" "A decentralization movement has tried to erode the dominance of Facebook and " "other Big Tech companies by fielding <quote>indieweb</quote> alternatives — " @@ -3296,8 +3334,8 @@ msgid "" "etc. — but these efforts have failed to attain any kind of liftoff." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2612 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2650 msgid "" "Fundamentally, each of these services is hamstrung by the same problem: " "Every potential user for a Facebook or Twitter alternative has to convince " @@ -3308,16 +3346,16 @@ msgid "" "<emphasis>we</emphasis> have Facebook accounts." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2622 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2660 msgid "" "All of this has conspired to make Facebook — and other dominant platforms — " "into <quote>kill zones</quote> that investors will not fund new entrants " "for." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2627 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2665 msgid "" "And yet, all of today’s tech giants came into existence despite the " "entrenched advantage of the companies that came before them. To understand " @@ -3325,13 +3363,13 @@ msgid "" "adversarial interoperability." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2634 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><blockquote><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2672 msgid "The hard problem of our species is coordination." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2638 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2676 msgid "" "<quote>Interoperability</quote> is the ability of two technologies to work " "with one another: Anyone can make an LP that will play on any record player, " @@ -3342,8 +3380,8 @@ msgid "" "toast in your toaster." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2647 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2685 msgid "" "Interoperability is often a source of innovation and consumer benefit: Apple " "made the first commercially successful PC, but millions of independent " @@ -3359,8 +3397,8 @@ msgid "" "the way for the internet revolution." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2662 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2700 msgid "" "<quote>Interoperability</quote> is often used interchangeably with " "<quote>standardization,</quote> which is the process when manufacturers and " @@ -3370,8 +3408,8 @@ msgid "" "interprets." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2670 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2708 msgid "" "But interoperability doesn’t require standardization — indeed, " "standardization often proceeds from the chaos of ad hoc interoperability " @@ -3384,8 +3422,8 @@ msgid "" "interoperability.</quote>" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2681 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2719 msgid "" "Beyond neutral interoperability, there is <quote>adversarial " "interoperability.</quote> That’s when a manufacturer makes a product that " @@ -3394,8 +3432,8 @@ msgid "" "bypassing a security system designed to prevent interoperability</emphasis>." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2689 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2727 msgid "" "Probably the most familiar form of adversarial interoperability is " "third-party printer ink. Printer manufacturers claim that they sell printers " @@ -3406,8 +3444,8 @@ msgid "" "cartridges." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2698 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2736 msgid "" "Owners of printers take the position that HP and Epson and Brother are not " "charities and that customers for their wares have no obligation to help them " @@ -3421,8 +3459,8 @@ msgid "" "printer companies?" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2711 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2749 msgid "" "Adversarial interoperability has played an outsized role in the history of " "the tech industry: from the founding of the <quote>alt.*</quote> Usenet " @@ -3437,8 +3475,8 @@ msgid "" "Facebook-based Myspace reader)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2725 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2763 msgid "" "Today, incumbency is seen as an unassailable advantage. Facebook is where " "all of your friends are, so no one can start a Facebook competitor. But " @@ -3454,8 +3492,8 @@ msgid "" "better treatment." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2740 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2778 msgid "" "Adversarial interoperability was once the norm and a key contributor to the " "dynamic, vibrant tech scene, but now it is stuck behind a thicket of laws " @@ -3466,8 +3504,8 @@ msgid "" "interference, and patent." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2750 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2788 msgid "" "In the absence of a competitive market, lawmakers have resorted to assigning " "expensive, state-like duties to Big Tech firms, such as automatically " @@ -3476,16 +3514,16 @@ msgid "" "controlling access to sexual material." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2758 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2796 msgid "" "These measures put a floor under how small we can make Big Tech because only " "the very largest companies can afford the humans and automated filters " "needed to perform these duties." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2763 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2801 msgid "" "But that’s not the only way in which making platforms responsible for " "policing their users undermines competition. A platform that is expected to " @@ -3498,8 +3536,8 @@ msgid "" "guesses about whether someone is a harasser)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2775 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2813 msgid "" "To the extent that we are willing to let Big Tech police itself — rather " "than making Big Tech small enough that users can leave bad platforms for " @@ -3511,8 +3549,8 @@ msgid "" "interoperability." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2785 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2823 msgid "" "Ultimately, we can try to fix Big Tech by making it responsible for bad acts " "by its users, or we can try to fix the internet by cutting Big Tech down to " @@ -3526,13 +3564,13 @@ msgid "" "global, open web." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2797 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2835 msgid "Fake news is an epistemological crisis" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2799 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2837 msgid "" "Tech is not the only industry that has undergone massive concentration since " "the Reagan era. Virtually every major industry — from oil to newspapers to " @@ -3540,8 +3578,8 @@ msgid "" "clubby oligarchy that just a few players dominate." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2806 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2844 msgid "" "At the same time, every industry has become something of a tech industry as " "general-purpose computers and general-purpose networks and the promise of " @@ -3549,8 +3587,8 @@ msgid "" "firm with tech." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2812 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2850 msgid "" "This phenomenon of industrial concentration is part of a wider story about " "wealth concentration overall as a smaller and smaller number of people own " @@ -3559,8 +3597,8 @@ msgid "" "interests of the people and companies with all the money." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2820 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2858 msgid "" "That means that whenever a regulator asks a question with an obvious, " "empirical answer (<quote>Are humans causing climate change?</quote> or " @@ -3571,8 +3609,8 @@ msgid "" "made them so wealthy." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2829 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2867 msgid "" "Rich people have always played an outsized role in politics and more so " "since the Supreme Court’s <emphasis>Citizens United</emphasis> decision " @@ -3582,8 +3620,8 @@ msgid "" "before. Think of the Koch brothers or George Soros or Bill Gates." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2838 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2876 msgid "" "But the policy distortions of rich individuals pale in comparison to the " "policy distortions that concentrated industries are capable of. The " @@ -3593,8 +3631,8 @@ msgid "" "capital surpluses to spend on lobbying." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2847 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2885 msgid "" "Concentrated industries also find it easier to collaborate on policy " "objectives than competitive ones. When all the top execs from your industry " @@ -3603,8 +3641,8 @@ msgid "" "regulation." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2854 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2892 msgid "" "Rising through the ranks in a concentrated industry generally means working " "at two or three of the big companies. When there are only relatively few " @@ -3617,8 +3655,8 @@ msgid "" "collegial, rather than competitive, attitude." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2866 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2904 msgid "" "Highly concentrated industries also present a regulatory conundrum. When an " "industry is dominated by just four or five companies, the only people who " @@ -3630,8 +3668,8 @@ msgid "" "ranks once their terms have expired." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2877 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2915 msgid "" "All this is to say that the tight social bonds, small number of firms, and " "regulatory capture of concentrated industries give the companies that " @@ -3639,8 +3677,8 @@ msgid "" "bind them." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2883 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2921 msgid "" "This is increasingly obvious. Whether it’s payday lenders <ulink " "url=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/02/25/how-payday-lending-industry-insider-tilted-academic-research-its-favor/\">winning " @@ -3655,8 +3693,8 @@ msgid "" "the highest bidder." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2897 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2935 msgid "" "It’s really impossible to overstate what a terrifying prospect this is. We " "live in an incredibly high-tech society, and none of us could acquire the " @@ -3673,8 +3711,8 @@ msgid "" "sufficient to keep you from dying after you finish your dinner." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2914 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2952 msgid "" "In a world as complex as this one, we have to defer to authorities, and we " "keep them honest by making those authorities accountable to us and binding " @@ -3684,13 +3722,13 @@ msgid "" "whether the adjudication process itself is trustworthy." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2923 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2961 msgid "Right now, it’s obviously not." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2926 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2964 msgid "" "The past 40 years of rising inequality and industry concentration, together " "with increasingly weak accountability and transparency for expert agencies, " @@ -3700,8 +3738,8 @@ msgid "" "rest of us." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2934 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2972 msgid "" "For example, it’s been decades since Exxon’s own scientists concluded that " "its products would render the Earth uninhabitable by humans. And yet those " @@ -3713,8 +3751,8 @@ msgid "" "they, too, are the outcome of another conspiracy." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2945 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2983 msgid "" "The collapse of the credibility of our systems for divining and upholding " "truths has left us in a state of epistemological chaos. Once, most of us " @@ -3724,8 +3762,8 @@ msgid "" "sort the true from the false." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2954 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2992 msgid "" "If you’re like me, you probably believe that vaccines are safe, but you " "(like me) probably also can’t explain the microbiology or statistics. Few of " @@ -3742,8 +3780,8 @@ msgid "" "safety are <emphasis>not</emphasis> an aberration." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2971 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3009 msgid "" "I’m 100% certain that vaccinating is safe and effective, but I’m also at " "something of a loss to explain exactly, <emphasis>precisely,</emphasis> why " @@ -3752,8 +3790,8 @@ msgid "" "enrich the super rich." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2979 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3017 msgid "" "Fake news — conspiracy theories, racist ideologies, scientific denialism — " "has always been with us. What’s changed today is not the mix of ideas in the " @@ -3763,8 +3801,8 @@ msgid "" "and Big Wrestling and Big Car and Big Movie Theater and Big Everything Else." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2988 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3026 msgid "" "No one can say for certain why this has happened, but the two dominant camps " "are idealism (the belief that the people who argue for these conspiracies " @@ -3773,24 +3811,24 @@ msgid "" "attractive because of material conditions in the world)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2996 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3034 msgid "" "I’m a materialist. I’ve been exposed to the arguments of conspiracy " "theorists all my life, and I have not experienced any qualitative leap in " "the quality of those arguments." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3001 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3039 msgid "" "The major difference is in the world, not the arguments. In a time where " "actual conspiracies are commonplace, conspiracy theories acquire a ring of " "plausibility." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3006 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3044 msgid "" "We have always had disagreements about what’s true, but today, we have a " "disagreement over how we know whether something is true. This is an " @@ -3803,16 +3841,16 @@ msgid "" "lights on)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3017 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3055 msgid "" "Targeting — surveillance capitalism — makes it easier to find people who are " "undergoing this epistemological crisis, but it doesn’t create the " "crisis. For that, you need to look to corruption." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3022 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3060 msgid "" "And, conveniently enough, it’s corruption that allows surveillance " "capitalism to grow by dismantling monopoly protections, by permitting " @@ -3822,13 +3860,13 @@ msgid "" "yourself to commercial surveillance." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3031 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3069 msgid "Tech is different" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3033 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3071 msgid "" "I reject both iterations of technological exceptionalism. I reject the idea " "that tech is uniquely terrible and led by people who are greedier or worse " @@ -3837,16 +3875,16 @@ msgid "" "for its present-day monopolistic status." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3041 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3079 msgid "" "I think tech is just another industry, albeit one that grew up in the " "absence of real monopoly constraints. It may have been first, but it isn’t " "the worst nor will it be the last." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3046 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3084 msgid "" "But there’s one way in which I <emphasis>am</emphasis> a tech " "exceptionalist. I believe that online tools are the key to overcoming " @@ -3858,16 +3896,16 @@ msgid "" "stability — but it’s a means to achieve these things." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3057 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3095 msgid "" "The hard problem of our species is coordination. Everything from climate " "change to social change to running a business to making a family work can be " "viewed as a collective action problem." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3062 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3100 msgid "" "The internet makes it easier than at any time before to find people who want " "to work on a project with you — hence the success of free and open-source " @@ -3875,8 +3913,8 @@ msgid "" "coordinate the work you do." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3068 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3106 msgid "" "The internet and the computers we connect to it also possess an exceptional " "quality: general-purposeness. The internet is designed to allow any two " @@ -3886,8 +3924,8 @@ msgid "" "program we can express in symbolic logic." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3077 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3115 msgid "" "This means that every time someone with a special communications need " "invests in infrastructure and techniques to make the internet faster, " @@ -3898,16 +3936,16 @@ msgid "" "beneficiary of this work." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3086 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3124 msgid "" "For these reasons, every type of communication is gradually absorbed into " "the internet, and every type of device — from airplanes to pacemakers — " "eventually becomes a computer in a fancy case." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3091 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3129 msgid "" "While these considerations don’t preclude regulating networks and computers, " "they do call for gravitas and caution when doing so because changes to " @@ -3915,8 +3953,8 @@ msgid "" "many, many other domains." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3097 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3135 msgid "" "The upshot of this is that our best hope of solving the big coordination " "problems — climate change, inequality, etc. — is with free, fair, and open " @@ -3925,13 +3963,13 @@ msgid "" "interventions to solve one problem might create problems in other domains." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3105 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3143 msgid "Ownership of facts" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3107 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3145 msgid "" "Big Tech has a funny relationship with information. When you’re generating " "information — anything from the location data streaming off your mobile " @@ -3939,8 +3977,8 @@ msgid "" "claims the rights to make unlimited use of that data." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3114 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3152 msgid "" "But when you have the audacity to turn the tables — to use a tool that " "blocks ads or slurps your waiting updates out of a social network and puts " @@ -3949,8 +3987,8 @@ msgid "" "you’re stealing from them." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3121 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3159 msgid "" "The thing is, information is a very bad fit for any kind of private property " "regime. Property rights are useful for establishing markets that can lead to " @@ -3959,8 +3997,8 @@ msgid "" "be bought and sold." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3128 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3166 msgid "" "Information rarely has such a clear title. Take phone numbers: There’s " "clearly something going wrong when Facebook slurps up millions of users’ " @@ -3968,8 +4006,8 @@ msgid "" "graphs and fill in missing information about other users." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3135 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3173 msgid "" "But the phone numbers Facebook nonconsensually acquires in this transaction " "are not the <quote>property</quote> of the users they’re taken from nor do " @@ -3980,8 +4018,8 @@ msgid "" "obviously terrible idea." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3144 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3182 msgid "" "Likewise for the facts that Facebook and other commercial surveillance " "operators acquire about us, like that we are the children of our parents or " @@ -3995,8 +4033,8 @@ msgid "" "who know these facts?" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3157 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3195 msgid "" "If you go to a Black Lives Matter demonstration, do the other demonstrators " "need your permission to post their photos from the event? The online fights " @@ -4007,8 +4045,8 @@ msgid "" "right that everyone else in the mix has to respect." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3166 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3204 msgid "" "The fact that information isn’t a good fit with property and markets doesn’t " "mean that it’s not valuable. Babies aren’t property, but they’re inarguably " @@ -4019,8 +4057,8 @@ msgid "" "monster." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3175 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3213 msgid "" "It’s tempting to reach for the property hammer when Big Tech treats your " "information like a nail — not least because Big Tech are such prolific " @@ -4032,8 +4070,8 @@ msgid "" "click-through agreement that you don’t have the opportunity to modify." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3186 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3224 msgid "" "Meanwhile, establishing property rights over information will create " "insurmountable barriers to independent data processing. Imagine that we " @@ -4048,8 +4086,8 @@ msgid "" "department and millions for licenses before they can even get started." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3201 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3239 msgid "" "The same goes for things like search indexes of the web or photos of " "peoples’ houses, which have become contentious thanks to Google’s Street " @@ -4064,8 +4102,8 @@ msgid "" "and more." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3215 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3253 msgid "" "The ownership of facts is antithetical to many kinds of human progress. It’s " "hard to imagine a rule that limits Big Tech’s exploitation of our collective " @@ -4076,13 +4114,13 @@ msgid "" "scrutiny and analysis." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3225 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3263 msgid "Persuasion works… slowly" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3227 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3265 msgid "" "The platforms may oversell their ability to persuade people, but obviously, " "persuasion works sometimes. Whether it’s the private realm that LGBTQ people " @@ -4092,8 +4130,8 @@ msgid "" "attitudes <emphasis>can</emphasis> change." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3236 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3274 msgid "" "The project of shifting societal attitudes is a game of inches and " "years. For centuries, svengalis have purported to be able to accelerate this " @@ -4105,8 +4143,8 @@ msgid "" "worldview." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3247 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3285 msgid "" "Yet, after 12 years of terror, once the war ended, Nazi ideology was largely " "discredited in both East and West Germany, and a program of national truth " @@ -4117,8 +4155,8 @@ msgid "" "no more permanent than Nazism itself." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3257 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3295 msgid "" "Racism and authoritarianism have also always been with us. Anyone who’s " "reviewed the kind of messages and arguments that racists put forward today " @@ -4129,8 +4167,8 @@ msgid "" "nationalists today." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3266 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3304 msgid "" "If racists haven’t gotten more convincing in the past decade, then how is it " "that more people were convinced to be openly racist at that time? I believe " @@ -4149,20 +4187,20 @@ msgid "" "opportunists target the fearful and the conspiracy-minded." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3285 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3323 msgid "Paying won’t help" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3287 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3325 msgid "" "As the old saw goes, <quote>If you’re not paying for the product, you’re the " "product.</quote>" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3291 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3329 msgid "" "It’s a commonplace belief today that the advent of free, ad-supported media " "was the original sin of surveillance capitalism. The reasoning is that the " @@ -4175,8 +4213,8 @@ msgid "" "would be better for democracy." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3303 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3341 msgid "" "But the degradation of news products long precedes the advent of " "ad-supported online news. Long before newspapers were online, lax antitrust " @@ -4190,8 +4228,8 @@ msgid "" "unable to adapt to the internet — it was monopolism." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3316 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3354 msgid "" "Then, as news companies <emphasis>did</emphasis> come online, the ad " "revenues they commanded dropped even as the number of internet users (and " @@ -4203,8 +4241,8 @@ msgid "" "Facebook and Google acting as gatekeepers." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3326 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3364 msgid "" "Paid services continue to exist alongside free ones, and often it is these " "paid services — anxious to prevent people from bypassing their paywalls or " @@ -4223,8 +4261,8 @@ msgid "" "your iPhone should have us very worried indeed." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3345 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3383 msgid "" "We shouldn’t just be concerned about payment and control: The idea that " "paying will improve discourse is also dangerously wrong. The poor success " @@ -4237,8 +4275,8 @@ msgid "" "people." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3356 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3394 msgid "" "Perhaps paying would fix this, the reasoning goes. If platforms could be " "economically viable even if you stopped clicking on them once your " @@ -4246,16 +4284,16 @@ msgid "" "reason to algorithmically enrage you to get more clicks out of you, right?" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3363 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3401 msgid "" "There may be something to that argument, but it still ignores the wider " "economic and political context of the platforms and the world that allowed " "them to grow so dominant." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3368 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3406 msgid "" "Platforms are world-spanning and all-encompassing because they are " "monopolies, and they are monopolies because we have gutted our most " @@ -4267,16 +4305,16 @@ msgid "" "climate and technology shocks." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3379 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3417 msgid "" "In this wildly unequal world, paying doesn’t improve the discourse; it " "simply prices discourse out of the range of the majority of people. Paying " "for the product is dandy, if you can afford it." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3384 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3422 msgid "" "If you think today’s filter bubbles are a problem for our discourse, imagine " "what they’d be like if rich people inhabited free-flowing Athenian " @@ -4291,8 +4329,8 @@ msgid "" "internet." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3398 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3436 msgid "" "Behind the idea of paying for access is a belief that free markets will " "address Big Tech’s dysfunction. After all, to the extent that people have a " @@ -4306,8 +4344,8 @@ msgid "" "to deprive them of the choice to take their business elsewhere." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3411 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3449 msgid "" "Advocates for markets laud their ability to aggregate the diffused knowledge " "of buyers and sellers across a whole society through demand signals, price " @@ -4320,8 +4358,8 @@ msgid "" "more of a <quote>rogue capitalism.</quote>" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3423 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3461 msgid "" "The profitability of any business is constrained by the possibility that its " "customers will take their business elsewhere. Both surveillance and lock-in " @@ -4332,8 +4370,8 @@ msgid "" "is no alternative." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3433 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3471 msgid "" "Ultimately, surveillance and lock-in are both simply business strategies " "that monopolists can choose. Surveillance companies like Google are " @@ -4348,13 +4386,13 @@ msgid "" "more they <emphasis>can</emphasis> get away with." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3448 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3486 msgid "An <quote>ecology</quote> moment for trustbusting" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3450 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3488 msgid "" "If we’re going to break Big Tech’s death grip on our digital lives, we’re " "going to have to fight monopolies. That may sound pretty mundane and " @@ -4363,8 +4401,8 @@ msgid "" "cyberpunk novel." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3457 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3495 msgid "" "Meanwhile, breaking up monopolies is something we seem to have forgotten how " "to do. There is a bipartisan, trans-Atlantic consensus that breaking up " @@ -4374,8 +4412,8 @@ msgid "" "efficiencies of scale." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3465 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3503 msgid "" "But trustbusters once strode the nation, brandishing law books, terrorizing " "robber barons, and shattering the illusion of monopolies’ all-powerful grip " @@ -4384,13 +4422,13 @@ msgid "" "backs when they went up against the richest, most powerful men in the world." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3473 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3511 msgid "Could we find that political will again?" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3476 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3514 msgid "" "Copyright scholar James Boyle has described how the term " "<quote>ecology</quote> marked a turning point in environmental " @@ -4400,8 +4438,8 @@ msgid "" "pollution or beat back smog or acid rain." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3484 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3522 msgid "" "But the term <quote>ecology</quote> welded these disparate causes together " "into a single movement, and the members of this movement found solidarity " @@ -4413,8 +4451,8 @@ msgid "" "the habitability of the planet Earth is a shared duty among all people." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3495 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3533 msgid "" "I believe we are on the verge of a new <quote>ecology</quote> moment " "dedicated to combating monopolies. After all, tech isn’t the only " @@ -4422,8 +4460,8 @@ msgid "" "concentrated of industries." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3501 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3539 msgid "" "You can find partisans for trustbusting in every sector of the " "economy. Everywhere you look, you can find people who’ve been wronged by " @@ -4434,8 +4472,8 @@ msgid "" "follows that nearly every large company will have overlapping shareholders." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3511 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3549 msgid "" "That’s the good news: With a little bit of work and a little bit of " "coalition building, we have more than enough political will to break up Big " @@ -4443,16 +4481,16 @@ msgid "" "then we take AT&T/WarnerMedia." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3517 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3555 msgid "" "But here’s the bad news: Much of what we’re doing to tame Big Tech " "<emphasis>instead</emphasis> of breaking up the big companies also " "forecloses on the possibility of breaking them up later." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3522 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3560 msgid "" "Big Tech’s concentration currently means that their inaction on harassment, " "for example, leaves users with an impossible choice: absent themselves from " @@ -4465,8 +4503,8 @@ msgid "" "generated by their creations are increasing." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3534 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3572 msgid "" "Yet governments confronting all of these problems all inevitably converge on " "the same solution: deputize the Big Tech giants to police their users and " @@ -4476,8 +4514,8 @@ msgid "" "allocate hundreds of millions to run these compliance systems." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3543 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3581 msgid "" "These rules — the EU’s new Directive on Copyright, Australia’s new terror " "regulation, America’s FOSTA/SESTA sex-trafficking law and more — are not " @@ -4487,8 +4525,8 @@ msgid "" "under how small we can hope to make Big Tech." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3552 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3590 msgid "" "That’s because any move to break up Big Tech and cut it down to size will " "have to cope with the hard limit of not making these companies so small that " @@ -4502,8 +4540,8 @@ msgid "" "harder." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3564 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3602 msgid "" "Allowing the platforms to grow to their present size has given them a " "dominance that is nearly insurmountable — deputizing them with public duties " @@ -4514,8 +4552,8 @@ msgid "" "companies, which will make them bigger still." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3574 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3612 msgid "" "We can work to fix the internet by breaking up Big Tech and depriving them " "of monopoly profits, or we can work to fix Big Tech by making them spend " @@ -4525,13 +4563,13 @@ msgid "" "behave themselves." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3582 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3620 msgid "Make Big Tech small again" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3584 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3622 msgid "" "Trustbusting is hard. Breaking big companies into smaller ones is expensive " "and time-consuming. So time-consuming that by the time you’re done, the " @@ -4541,15 +4579,15 @@ msgid "" "because mainframes were being speedily replaced by PCs." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3594 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><blockquote><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3632 msgid "" "A future U.S. president could simply direct their attorney general to " "enforce the law as it was written." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3599 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3637 msgid "" "It’s far easier to prevent concentration than to fix it, and reinstating the " "traditional contours of U.S. antitrust enforcement will, at the very least, " @@ -4558,8 +4596,8 @@ msgid "" "companies competing directly with the companies that rely on the platforms." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3607 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3645 msgid "" "These powers are all in the plain language of U.S. antitrust laws, so in " "theory, a future U.S. president could simply direct their attorney general " @@ -4570,8 +4608,8 @@ msgid "" "do the trick." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3616 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3654 msgid "" "If the courts frustrate the Justice Department and the president, the next " "stop would be Congress, which could eliminate any doubt about how antitrust " @@ -4583,11 +4621,11 @@ msgid "" "hands, which erodes our right to self-determination. If there is a monopoly, " "the law wants it gone, period. Sure, get rid of monopolies that create " "<quote>consumer harm</quote> in the form of higher prices, but also, " -"<emphasis>get rid of other monopolies, too.</emphasis>" +"<emphasis>get rid of other monopolies, too</emphasis>." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3630 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3668 msgid "" "But this only prevents things from getting worse. To help them get better, " "we will have to build coalitions with other activists in the anti-monopoly " @@ -4597,8 +4635,8 @@ msgid "" "Luxottica from dominating both the sale and the manufacture of spectacles." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3639 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3677 msgid "" "In an important sense, it doesn’t matter which industry the breakups begin " "in. Once they start, shareholders in <emphasis>every</emphasis> industry " @@ -4616,13 +4654,13 @@ msgid "" "Road for the next 10 years.</quote>" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3656 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3694 msgid "20 GOTO 10" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3658 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3696 msgid "" "Fixing Big Tech will require a lot of iteration. As cyber lawyer Lawrence " "Lessig wrote in his 1999 book, <emphasis>Code and Other Laws of " @@ -4631,8 +4669,8 @@ msgid "" "acceptable), and markets (what’s profitable)." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3665 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3703 msgid "" "If you could wave a wand and get Congress to pass a law that re-fanged the " "Sherman Act tomorrow, you could use the impending breakups to convince " @@ -4640,15 +4678,15 @@ msgid "" "Apple that would be waiting in the wings after they were cut down to size." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3672 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3710 msgid "" "But getting Congress to act will require a massive normative shift, a mass " "movement of people who care about monopolies — and pulling them apart." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3677 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3715 msgid "" "Getting people to care about monopolies will take technological " "interventions that help them to see what a world free from Big Tech might " @@ -4662,8 +4700,8 @@ msgid "" "yet." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3689 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3727 msgid "" "Neither tech nor law nor code nor markets are sufficient to reform Big " "Tech. But a profitable competitor to Big Tech could bankroll a legislative " @@ -4678,8 +4716,8 @@ msgid "" "build on to weaken Big Tech even further." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3703 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3741 msgid "" "The surveillance capitalism hypothesis — that Big Tech’s products really " "work as well as they say they do and that’s why everything is so screwed up " @@ -4690,8 +4728,8 @@ msgid "" "in place." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3712 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3750 msgid "" "As to why things are so screwed up? Capitalism. Specifically, the monopolism " "that creates inequality and the inequality that creates monopolism. It’s a " @@ -4703,8 +4741,8 @@ msgid "" "piss off the monopolists." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3723 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3761 msgid "" "Surveillance doesn’t make capitalism rogue. Capitalism’s unchecked rule " "begets surveillance. Surveillance isn’t bad because it lets people " @@ -4715,20 +4753,20 @@ msgid "" "lumberyard." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3732 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><title> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3770 msgid "Up and through" msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3734 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3772 msgid "" "With all the problems of Big Tech, it’s tempting to imagine solving the " "problem by returning to a world without tech at all. Resist that temptation." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3739 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3777 msgid "" "The only way out of our Big Tech problem is up and through. If our future is " "not reliant upon high tech, it will be because civilization has fallen. Big " @@ -4739,8 +4777,8 @@ msgid "" "democratic, accountable control." msgstr "" -#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3749 +#. type: Content of: <article><sect1><para> +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3787 msgid "" "I am, secretly, despite what I have said earlier, a tech exceptionalist. Not " "in the sense of thinking that tech should be given a free pass to monopolize "