How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
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+:author: Cory Doctorow
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The net of a thousand lies
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or more of three things:
1. Segmenting
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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
learning about their ideas.
2. Deception
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Lies and fraud are pernicious, and surveillance capitalism supercharges
them through targeting. If you want to sell a fraudulent payday loan or
false one by means of sophisticated persuasion.
3. Domination
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Surveillance capitalism is the result of monopoly. Monopoly is the
cause, and surveillance capitalism and its negative outcomes are the
remedies we seek.
4. Bypassing our rational faculties
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*This* is the good stuff: using machine learning, “dark patterns,”
engagement hacking, and other techniques to get us to do things that run