X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-destroy-surveillance.git/blobdiff_plain/c88c31f05f6ea7f2ef5df3bb41e607f6e951ede1..67297f33ba0e07a18d0f5a0f798452266e510f90:/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.rst diff --git a/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.rst b/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.rst index bfd6680..f555aa8 100644 --- a/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.rst +++ b/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.rst @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism ====================================== +:author: Cory Doctorow +:copyright: © 2020 Cory Doctorow, CC BY-ND + The net of a thousand lies -------------------------- @@ -278,7 +281,7 @@ faculties, surveillance capitalists like Mark Zuckerberg mostly do one or more of three things: 1. Segmenting -------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 @@ -349,7 +352,7 @@ learned the right words from these low-cost means of finding people and learning about their ideas. 2. Deception ------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lies and fraud are pernicious, and surveillance capitalism supercharges them through targeting. If you want to sell a fraudulent payday loan or @@ -399,7 +402,7 @@ from the anti-vax issue in which someone’s true belief is displaced by a false one by means of sophisticated persuasion. 3. Domination -------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Surveillance capitalism is the result of monopoly. Monopoly is the cause, and surveillance capitalism and its negative outcomes are the @@ -445,7 +448,7 @@ impact of manipulation and should be central to our analysis and any remedies we seek. 4. Bypassing our rational faculties ------------------------------------ +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *This* is the good stuff: using machine learning, “dark patterns,” engagement hacking, and other techniques to get us to do things that run