From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 07:41:52 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Updated POT. X-Git-Tag: nb-printed-2021-01-24~468 X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-destroy-surveillance.git/commitdiff_plain/4f23a7a0fc892a24120836561cfc0da52072d908 Updated POT. --- diff --git a/po/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.pot b/po/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.pot index 6725611..d75e8e7 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: 2020-09-06 21:35+0200\n" +"POT-Creation-Date: 2020-09-07 09:40+0200\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n" @@ -22,17 +22,10 @@ msgid "en" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: -#: complete-book.xml:6 complete-book.xml:44 +#: complete-book.xml:6 complete-book.xml:60 msgid "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" msgstr "" -#. subtitle> -#. </subtitle -#. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo> -#: complete-book.xml:8 -msgid "<pubdate>2020-??-??</pubdate>" -msgstr "" - #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><authorgroup><author><firstname> #: complete-book.xml:11 msgid "Cory" @@ -56,8 +49,18 @@ msgid "" "type=\"address\" id=\"0\"/> </publisher>" msgstr "" +#. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> +#: complete-book.xml:22 +msgid "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow." +msgstr "" + +#. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> +#: complete-book.xml:25 +msgid "Published by Petter Reinholdtsen." +msgstr "" + #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para><inlinemediaobject> -#: complete-book.xml:23 +#: complete-book.xml:29 msgid "" "<imageobject> <imagedata fileref=\"images/cc.png\" contentdepth=\"3em\" " "width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"/> </imageobject> <imageobject> <imagedata " @@ -66,31 +69,46 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para><inlinemediaobject><textobject><phrase> -#: complete-book.xml:30 +#: complete-book.xml:36 msgid "Creative Commons, Some rights reserved" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:22 +#: complete-book.xml:28 msgid "<placeholder type=\"inlinemediaobject\" id=\"0\"/>" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:36 +#: complete-book.xml:42 msgid "" "This book is licensed under a Creative Commons license. This license permits " -"any use of this work, so long as attribution is given. For more information " -"about the license visit <ulink " -"url=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/\"/>." +"any use of this work, so long as attribution is given and no derivatived " +"material is distributed. For more information about the license visit " +"<ulink url=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/\"/>." +msgstr "" + +#. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> +#: complete-book.xml:49 +msgid "ISBN 978-82-93828-05-1 (hard cover)" +msgstr "" + +#. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> +#: complete-book.xml:52 +msgid "ISBN 978-82-93828-06-8 (paperback)" +msgstr "" + +#. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> +#: complete-book.xml:55 +msgid "ISBN 978-82-93828-07-5 (ePub)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:46 +#: complete-book.xml:62 msgid "The net of a thousand lies" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:48 +#: complete-book.xml:64 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 " @@ -100,7 +118,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:56 +#: complete-book.xml:72 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 " @@ -110,7 +128,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:63 +#: complete-book.xml:79 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 " @@ -119,7 +137,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:69 +#: complete-book.xml:85 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 " @@ -127,7 +145,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:75 +#: complete-book.xml:91 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 " @@ -142,7 +160,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:88 +#: complete-book.xml:104 msgid "" "The arguments for ridiculous beliefs in odious conspiracies like " "anti-vaccination, climate denial, a flat Earth, and eugenics are no better " @@ -152,7 +170,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:95 +#: complete-book.xml:111 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 " @@ -163,14 +181,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:104 +#: complete-book.xml:120 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:108 +#: complete-book.xml:124 msgid "" "Some people think so. Today, there is a widespread belief that machine " "learning and commercial surveillance can turn even the most fumble-tongued " @@ -188,7 +206,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:124 +#: complete-book.xml:140 msgid "" "After all, in a world where sprawling and incoherent conspiracy theories " "like Pizzagate and its successor, QAnon, have widespread followings, " @@ -196,7 +214,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:129 +#: complete-book.xml:145 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 " @@ -209,7 +227,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:139 +#: complete-book.xml:155 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 " @@ -220,7 +238,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:147 +#: complete-book.xml:163 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 " @@ -234,7 +252,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:159 +#: complete-book.xml:175 msgid "" "But firefighting is reactive. We need fire " "<emphasis>prevention</emphasis>. We need to strike at the traumatic material " @@ -243,7 +261,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:165 +#: complete-book.xml:181 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>, " @@ -257,7 +275,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:176 +#: complete-book.xml:192 msgid "" "There’s a critical piece missing from the debate, though. All these " "solutions assume that tech companies are a fixture, that their dominance " @@ -269,7 +287,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:186 +#: complete-book.xml:202 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 " @@ -279,19 +297,19 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:194 +#: complete-book.xml:210 msgid "" "I want us to choose wisely. Taming Big Tech is integral to fixing the " "internet, and for that, we need digital rights activism." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:198 +#: complete-book.xml:214 msgid "Digital rights activism, a quarter-century on" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:200 +#: complete-book.xml:216 msgid "" "Digital rights activism is more than 30 years old now. The Electronic " "Frontier Foundation turned 30 this year; the Free Software Foundation " @@ -314,7 +332,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:221 +#: complete-book.xml:237 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 " @@ -338,7 +356,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:242 +#: complete-book.xml:258 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 " @@ -346,12 +364,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:248 +#: complete-book.xml:264 msgid "Tech exceptionalism, then and now" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:250 +#: complete-book.xml:266 msgid "" "Early critics of the digital rights movement — perhaps best represented by " "campaigning organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free " @@ -368,7 +386,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:265 +#: complete-book.xml:281 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 " @@ -379,7 +397,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:273 +#: complete-book.xml:289 msgid "" "From my perspective, the digital rights movement has remained stationary " "while the rest of the world has moved. From the earliest days, the " @@ -392,7 +410,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:284 +#: complete-book.xml:300 msgid "" "The <quote>surveillance capitalism</quote> critique recasts the digital " "rights movement in a new light again: not as alarmists who overestimate the " @@ -403,17 +421,17 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:292 +#: complete-book.xml:308 msgid "But tech exceptionalism is a sin no matter who practices it." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:295 +#: complete-book.xml:311 msgid "Don’t believe the hype" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:297 +#: complete-book.xml:313 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. " @@ -425,7 +443,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:307 +#: complete-book.xml:323 msgid "" "The fear of surveillance capitalism starts from the (correct) presumption " "that everything Big Tech says about itself is probably a lie. But the " @@ -439,7 +457,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:319 +#: complete-book.xml:335 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 " @@ -449,7 +467,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:326 +#: complete-book.xml:342 msgid "" "Being watched changes your behavior, and not for the better. It creates " "risks for our social progress. Zuboff’s book features beautifully wrought " @@ -464,12 +482,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:340 +#: complete-book.xml:356 msgid "What is persuasion?" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:342 +#: complete-book.xml:358 msgid "" "To understand why you shouldn’t worry about mind-control rays — but why you " "<emphasis>should</emphasis> worry about surveillance " @@ -478,7 +496,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:348 +#: complete-book.xml:364 msgid "" "Google, Facebook, and other surveillance capitalists promise their customers " "(the advertisers) that if they use machine-learning tools trained on " @@ -489,14 +507,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:357 +#: complete-book.xml:373 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:362 +#: complete-book.xml:378 msgid "" "But there’s little evidence that this is happening. Instead, the predictions " "that surveillance capitalism delivers to its customers are much less " @@ -506,12 +524,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:369 +#: complete-book.xml:385 msgid "1. Segmenting" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:371 +#: complete-book.xml:387 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 " @@ -523,7 +541,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:382 +#: complete-book.xml:398 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 " @@ -538,22 +556,22 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:396 +#: complete-book.xml:412 msgid "This is seriously creepy." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:399 +#: complete-book.xml:415 msgid "But it’s not mind control." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:402 +#: complete-book.xml:418 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:405 +#: complete-book.xml:421 msgid "" "Think of how surveillance capitalism works in politics. Surveillance " "capitalist companies sell political operatives the power to locate people " @@ -566,7 +584,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:416 +#: complete-book.xml:432 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 " @@ -578,7 +596,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:426 +#: complete-book.xml:442 msgid "" "Because targeting improves the yields on political pitches, it can " "accelerate the pace of political upheaval by making it possible for everyone " @@ -591,7 +609,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:437 +#: complete-book.xml:453 msgid "" "It’s important to differentiate this kind of political organizing from " "influence campaigns; finding people who secretly agree with you isn’t the " @@ -603,7 +621,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:446 +#: complete-book.xml:462 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 " @@ -614,12 +632,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:455 +#: complete-book.xml:471 msgid "2. Deception" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:457 +#: complete-book.xml:473 msgid "" "Lies and fraud are pernicious, and surveillance capitalism supercharges them " "through targeting. If you want to sell a fraudulent payday loan or subprime " @@ -633,7 +651,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:469 +#: complete-book.xml:485 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 " @@ -645,7 +663,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:479 +#: complete-book.xml:495 msgid "" "Sometimes, online deception involves replacing someone’s correct beliefs " "with incorrect ones, as it does in the anti-vaccination movement, whose " @@ -655,7 +673,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:486 +#: complete-book.xml:502 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, " @@ -668,7 +686,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:497 +#: complete-book.xml:513 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, " @@ -686,12 +704,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:514 +#: complete-book.xml:530 msgid "3. Domination" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:516 +#: complete-book.xml:532 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalism is the result of monopoly. Monopoly is the cause, " "and surveillance capitalism and its negative outcomes are the effects of " @@ -702,7 +720,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:525 +#: complete-book.xml:541 msgid "" "One example of how monopolism aids in persuasion is through dominance: " "Google makes editorial decisions about its algorithms that determine the " @@ -717,7 +735,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:538 +#: complete-book.xml:554 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 " @@ -731,7 +749,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:550 +#: complete-book.xml:566 msgid "" "Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism a <quote>rogue capitalism</quote> whose " "data-hoarding and machine-learning techniques rob us of our free will. But " @@ -747,12 +765,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:565 +#: complete-book.xml:581 msgid "4. Bypassing our rational faculties" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:567 +#: complete-book.xml:583 msgid "" "<emphasis>This</emphasis> is the good stuff: using machine learning, " "<quote>dark patterns,</quote> engagement hacking, and other techniques to " @@ -761,7 +779,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:573 +#: complete-book.xml:589 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 " @@ -776,7 +794,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:586 +#: complete-book.xml:602 msgid "" "Games are extraordinarily good at this. <quote>Free to play</quote> games " "manipulate us through many techniques, such as presenting players with a " @@ -789,7 +807,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:597 +#: complete-book.xml:613 msgid "" "Companies have risen and fallen on these techniques, and the " "<quote>fallen</quote> part is worth paying attention to. In general, living " @@ -801,7 +819,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:607 +#: complete-book.xml:623 msgid "" "That’s why behavioral conditioning uses <quote>intermittent reinforcement " "schedules.</quote> Instead of giving you a steady drip of encouragement or " @@ -811,7 +829,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:615 +#: complete-book.xml:631 msgid "" "Intermittent reinforcement is a powerful behavioral tool, but it also " "represents a collective action problem for surveillance capitalism. The " @@ -827,7 +845,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:630 +#: complete-book.xml:646 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 " @@ -844,7 +862,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:645 +#: complete-book.xml:661 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 " @@ -855,7 +873,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:653 +#: complete-book.xml:669 msgid "" "But surveillance capitalism’s margins on behavioral modification " "suck. Tripling the rate at which someone buys a widget sounds great <ulink " @@ -866,7 +884,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:663 +#: complete-book.xml:679 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 " @@ -885,7 +903,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:681 +#: complete-book.xml:697 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 " @@ -893,12 +911,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:688 +#: complete-book.xml:704 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:691 +#: complete-book.xml:707 msgid "" "This adaptation problem offers an explanation for one of surveillance " "capitalism’s most alarming traits: its relentless hunger for data and its " @@ -908,7 +926,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:698 +#: complete-book.xml:714 msgid "" "Zuboff observes this phenomenon and concludes that data must be very " "valuable if surveillance capitalism is so hungry for it. (In her words: " @@ -925,14 +943,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:713 +#: complete-book.xml:729 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:718 +#: complete-book.xml:734 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 " @@ -948,7 +966,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:732 +#: complete-book.xml:748 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 " @@ -958,7 +976,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:739 +#: complete-book.xml:755 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 " @@ -968,7 +986,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:746 +#: complete-book.xml:762 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 " @@ -980,7 +998,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:756 +#: complete-book.xml:772 msgid "" "There is one way in which targeted advertising uniquely benefits those " "advocating for socially unacceptable causes: It is invisible. Racism is " @@ -996,7 +1014,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:771 +#: complete-book.xml:787 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 " @@ -1006,7 +1024,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:779 +#: complete-book.xml:795 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 " @@ -1019,7 +1037,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:790 +#: complete-book.xml:806 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 " @@ -1034,7 +1052,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:804 +#: complete-book.xml:820 msgid "" "These layers of indirection between advertisers and publishers serve as " "moral buffers: Today’s moral consensus is largely that publishers shouldn’t " @@ -1044,7 +1062,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:812 +#: complete-book.xml:828 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 " @@ -1052,7 +1070,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:817 +#: complete-book.xml:833 msgid "" "More importantly, if you can dominate the information space while also " "gathering data, then you make other deceptive tactics stronger because it’s " @@ -1063,7 +1081,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:826 +#: complete-book.xml:842 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 " @@ -1075,7 +1093,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:835 +#: complete-book.xml:851 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalists are like stage mentalists who claim that their " "extraordinary insights into human behavior let them guess the word that you " @@ -1084,7 +1102,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:842 +#: complete-book.xml:858 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 " @@ -1095,7 +1113,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:850 +#: complete-book.xml:866 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 " @@ -1108,7 +1126,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:861 +#: complete-book.xml:877 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 " @@ -1119,7 +1137,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:870 +#: complete-book.xml:886 msgid "" "Pick-up artists are proof that people can believe they have developed a " "system of mind control <emphasis>even when it doesn’t " @@ -1139,7 +1157,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:888 +#: complete-book.xml:904 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 " @@ -1151,12 +1169,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:898 +#: complete-book.xml:914 msgid "What is Facebook?" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:900 +#: complete-book.xml:916 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 " @@ -1170,7 +1188,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:912 +#: complete-book.xml:928 msgid "" "Facebook’s surveillance regime is really without parallel in the Western " "world. Though Facebook tries to prevent itself from being visible on the " @@ -1185,14 +1203,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:926 +#: complete-book.xml:942 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:931 +#: complete-book.xml:947 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 " @@ -1206,7 +1224,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:942 +#: complete-book.xml:958 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 " @@ -1220,7 +1238,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:954 +#: complete-book.xml:970 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 " @@ -1233,14 +1251,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:965 +#: complete-book.xml:981 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:970 +#: complete-book.xml:986 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 " @@ -1257,7 +1275,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:985 +#: complete-book.xml:1001 msgid "" "Facebook makes finding people shopping for refrigerators a " "<emphasis>lot</emphasis> easier. It can target ads to people who’ve " @@ -1274,7 +1292,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1001 +#: complete-book.xml:1017 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 " @@ -1285,7 +1303,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1009 +#: complete-book.xml:1025 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 " @@ -1300,7 +1318,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1022 +#: complete-book.xml:1038 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 " @@ -1314,7 +1332,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1033 +#: complete-book.xml:1049 msgid "" "To make things worse, many Facebook groups spark precious little " "discussion. Your little-league soccer team, the people with the same rare " @@ -1325,7 +1343,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1041 +#: complete-book.xml:1057 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 " @@ -1334,7 +1352,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1047 +#: complete-book.xml:1063 msgid "" "So Facebook has to gin up traffic by sidetracking its own forums: Every time " "Facebook’s algorithm injects controversial materials — inflammatory " @@ -1347,7 +1365,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1058 +#: complete-book.xml:1074 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 " @@ -1360,7 +1378,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1069 +#: complete-book.xml:1085 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 " @@ -1372,7 +1390,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1079 +#: complete-book.xml:1095 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 " @@ -1386,12 +1404,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1091 +#: complete-book.xml:1107 msgid "Monopoly and the right to the future tense" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1093 +#: complete-book.xml:1109 msgid "" "Zuboff and her cohort are particularly alarmed at the extent to which " "surveillance allows corporations to influence our decisions, taking away " @@ -1400,7 +1418,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1100 +#: complete-book.xml:1116 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 " @@ -1413,7 +1431,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1111 +#: complete-book.xml:1127 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, " @@ -1424,7 +1442,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1119 +#: complete-book.xml:1135 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, " @@ -1433,7 +1451,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1125 +#: complete-book.xml:1141 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 " @@ -1442,7 +1460,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1131 +#: complete-book.xml:1147 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 " @@ -1453,7 +1471,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1139 +#: complete-book.xml:1155 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 " @@ -1467,7 +1485,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1151 +#: complete-book.xml:1167 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 " @@ -1478,7 +1496,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1159 +#: complete-book.xml:1175 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 " @@ -1487,7 +1505,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1166 +#: complete-book.xml:1182 msgid "" "So DVD and DVD player manufacturers would not be able to use accusations of " "abetting copyright infringement to punish manufacturers who made " @@ -1497,7 +1515,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1174 +#: complete-book.xml:1190 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 " @@ -1507,7 +1525,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1181 +#: complete-book.xml:1197 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 " @@ -1515,14 +1533,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><itemizedlist><listitem><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1189 +#: complete-book.xml:1205 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:1195 +#: complete-book.xml:1211 msgid "" "A device can be designed so that reconfiguring the software requires " "bypassing an <quote>access control for copyrighted works,</quote> which is a " @@ -1530,7 +1548,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><itemizedlist><listitem><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1202 +#: complete-book.xml:1218 msgid "" "Thus, companies can control their customers’ behavior after they take home " "their purchases by designing products so that all unpermitted uses require " @@ -1538,7 +1556,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1210 +#: complete-book.xml:1226 msgid "" "Section 1201 then becomes a means for manufacturers of all descriptions to " "force their customers to arrange their affairs to benefit the manufacturers’ " @@ -1546,7 +1564,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1215 +#: complete-book.xml:1231 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 " @@ -1557,7 +1575,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1224 +#: complete-book.xml:1240 msgid "" "Closer to home, Apple’s iPhones use these measures to prevent both " "third-party service and third-party software installation. This allows Apple " @@ -1571,7 +1589,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1237 +#: complete-book.xml:1253 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 " @@ -1583,7 +1601,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1247 +#: complete-book.xml:1263 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 " @@ -1599,7 +1617,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1260 +#: complete-book.xml:1276 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 " @@ -1615,7 +1633,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1274 +#: complete-book.xml:1290 msgid "" "Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism a <quote>rogue capitalism.</quote> " "Theoreticians of capitalism claim that its virtue is that it <ulink " @@ -1629,7 +1647,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1285 +#: complete-book.xml:1301 msgid "" "If our concern is that markets cease to function when consumers can no " "longer make choices, then copyright locks should concern us at " @@ -1641,12 +1659,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1294 +#: complete-book.xml:1310 msgid "Search order and the right to the future tense" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1296 +#: complete-book.xml:1312 msgid "" "Markets are posed as a kind of magic: By discovering otherwise hidden " "information conveyed by the free choices of consumers, those consumers’ " @@ -1660,7 +1678,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1308 +#: complete-book.xml:1324 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 " @@ -1674,7 +1692,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1320 +#: complete-book.xml:1336 msgid "" "Google’s algorithm is often tricked into serving disinformation as a " "prominent search result. But in these cases, Google isn’t persuading people " @@ -1683,7 +1701,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1326 +#: complete-book.xml:1342 msgid "" "This is true whether the search is for <quote>Are vaccines " "dangerous?</quote> or <quote>best restaurants near me.</quote> Most users " @@ -1697,7 +1715,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1337 +#: complete-book.xml:1353 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 " @@ -1711,7 +1729,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1348 +#: complete-book.xml:1364 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, " @@ -1728,7 +1746,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1364 +#: complete-book.xml:1380 msgid "" "If we’re worried about giant companies subverting markets by stripping " "consumers of their ability to make free choices, then vigorous antitrust " @@ -1740,7 +1758,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1374 +#: complete-book.xml:1390 msgid "" "This goes for many other companies. Amazon, a classic surveillance " "capitalist, is obviously the dominant tool for searching Amazon — though " @@ -1757,7 +1775,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1389 +#: complete-book.xml:1405 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 " @@ -1773,7 +1791,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1404 +#: complete-book.xml:1420 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 " @@ -1787,12 +1805,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1416 +#: complete-book.xml:1432 msgid "Monopolists can afford sleeping pills for watchdogs" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1418 +#: complete-book.xml:1434 msgid "" "Only the most extreme market ideologues think that markets can self-regulate " "without state oversight. Markets need watchdogs — regulators, lawmakers, and " @@ -1804,7 +1822,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1428 +#: complete-book.xml:1444 msgid "" "But this kind of regulatory capture doesn’t come cheap. In competitive " "sectors, where rivals are constantly eroding one another’s margins, " @@ -1813,7 +1831,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1434 +#: complete-book.xml:1450 msgid "" "Many of the harms of surveillance capitalism are the result of weak or " "nonexistent regulation. Those regulatory vacuums spring from the power of " @@ -1822,7 +1840,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1440 +#: complete-book.xml:1456 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 " @@ -1833,14 +1851,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1449 +#: complete-book.xml:1465 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:1453 +#: complete-book.xml:1469 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 " @@ -1854,7 +1872,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1465 +#: complete-book.xml:1481 msgid "" "<emphasis role=\"strong\">2. They believe the surveillance capitalism " "story.</emphasis> Data is cheap to aggregate and store, and both proponents " @@ -1869,7 +1887,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1478 +#: complete-book.xml:1494 msgid "" "<emphasis role=\"strong\">3. The penalties for leaking data are " "negligible.</emphasis> Most countries limit these penalties to actual " @@ -1882,7 +1900,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1489 +#: complete-book.xml:1505 msgid "" "But the harms from breaches are much more extensive than these " "actual-damages rules capture. Identity thieves and fraudsters are wily and " @@ -1895,7 +1913,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1499 +#: complete-book.xml:1515 msgid "" "However, even the most ambitious privacy rules, such as the EU General Data " "Protection Regulation, fall far short of capturing the negative " @@ -1905,7 +1923,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1506 +#: complete-book.xml:1522 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 " @@ -1915,7 +1933,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1514 +#: complete-book.xml:1530 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 " @@ -1924,7 +1942,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1520 +#: complete-book.xml:1536 msgid "" "But state surveillance and private surveillance are intimately related. As " "we saw when Apple was conscripted by the Chinese government as a vital " @@ -1935,7 +1953,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1528 +#: complete-book.xml:1544 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 " @@ -1954,7 +1972,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1546 +#: complete-book.xml:1562 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 " @@ -1966,7 +1984,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1555 +#: complete-book.xml:1571 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 " @@ -1982,7 +2000,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1569 +#: complete-book.xml:1585 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 " @@ -1993,14 +2011,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1578 +#: complete-book.xml:1594 msgid "" "While surveillance doesn’t cause monopolies, monopolies certainly abet " "surveillance." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1583 +#: complete-book.xml:1599 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 " @@ -2011,7 +2029,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1591 +#: complete-book.xml:1607 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 " @@ -2021,12 +2039,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1599 +#: complete-book.xml:1615 msgid "But that threat grows out of monopoly." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1602 +#: complete-book.xml:1618 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 " @@ -2037,7 +2055,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1610 +#: complete-book.xml:1626 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 " @@ -2048,7 +2066,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1619 +#: complete-book.xml:1635 msgid "" "The monopoly power that keeps any meaningful consequences for breaches at " "bay means that tech companies continue to build terrible products that are " @@ -2060,7 +2078,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1629 +#: complete-book.xml:1645 msgid "" "These bad security decisions are compounded yet again by the use of " "copyright locks to enforce business-model decisions against " @@ -2071,7 +2089,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1637 +#: complete-book.xml:1653 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) " @@ -2081,7 +2099,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1645 +#: complete-book.xml:1661 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 " @@ -2091,7 +2109,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1653 +#: complete-book.xml:1669 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 " @@ -2104,7 +2122,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1663 +#: complete-book.xml:1679 msgid "" "And unlike mind-control rays, enforced silence over security is an " "immediate, documented problem, and it <emphasis>does</emphasis> constitute " @@ -2116,7 +2134,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1672 +#: complete-book.xml:1688 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 " @@ -2135,7 +2153,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1690 +#: complete-book.xml:1706 msgid "" "Typically, technology debt results in a technological bankruptcy: The " "product gets so brittle and unsustainable that it fails " @@ -2148,7 +2166,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1701 +#: complete-book.xml:1717 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 " @@ -2161,12 +2179,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1713 +#: complete-book.xml:1729 msgid "Privacy and monopoly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1715 +#: complete-book.xml:1731 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 " @@ -2180,7 +2198,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1727 +#: complete-book.xml:1743 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 " @@ -2194,7 +2212,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1739 +#: complete-book.xml:1755 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 " @@ -2202,7 +2220,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1745 +#: complete-book.xml:1761 msgid "" "There’s real irony here. The belief in surveillance capitalism as a " "<quote>rogue capitalism</quote> is driven by the belief that markets " @@ -2212,7 +2230,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1752 +#: complete-book.xml:1768 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 " @@ -2229,7 +2247,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1767 +#: complete-book.xml:1783 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 " @@ -2240,7 +2258,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1776 +#: complete-book.xml:1792 msgid "" "The reason the world’s governments have been slow to create meaningful " "penalties for privacy breaches is that Big Tech’s concentration produces " @@ -2250,14 +2268,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1784 +#: complete-book.xml:1800 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:1789 +#: complete-book.xml:1805 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 " @@ -2266,7 +2284,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1795 +#: complete-book.xml:1811 msgid "" "Competitive markets would weaken the companies’ lobbying muscle by reducing " "their profits and pitting them against each other in regulatory forums. It " @@ -2279,19 +2297,19 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1806 +#: complete-book.xml:1822 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:1810 +#: complete-book.xml:1826 msgid "Ronald Reagan, pioneer of tech monopolism" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1812 +#: complete-book.xml:1828 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 " @@ -2305,7 +2323,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1824 +#: complete-book.xml:1840 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 " @@ -2319,7 +2337,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1836 +#: complete-book.xml:1852 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 " @@ -2331,7 +2349,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1845 +#: complete-book.xml:1861 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 " @@ -2344,7 +2362,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1855 +#: complete-book.xml:1871 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 " @@ -2355,7 +2373,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1863 +#: complete-book.xml:1879 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 " @@ -2367,7 +2385,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1872 +#: complete-book.xml:1888 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 " @@ -2379,7 +2397,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1882 +#: complete-book.xml:1898 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 " @@ -2393,7 +2411,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1894 +#: complete-book.xml:1910 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 " @@ -2408,7 +2426,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1907 +#: complete-book.xml:1923 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 " @@ -2423,7 +2441,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1919 +#: complete-book.xml:1935 msgid "" "Indeed, the birth of the web saw a mass-extinction event for the existing " "giant, wildly profitable proprietary technologies that had capital, network " @@ -2439,7 +2457,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1933 +#: complete-book.xml:1949 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 " @@ -2453,7 +2471,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1945 +#: complete-book.xml:1961 msgid "" "In support of this thesis, I offer the concentration that every " "<emphasis>other</emphasis> industry has undergone over the same period. From " @@ -2470,7 +2488,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1960 +#: complete-book.xml:1976 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 " @@ -2485,12 +2503,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1972 +#: complete-book.xml:1988 msgid "Steering with the windshield wipers" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1974 +#: complete-book.xml:1990 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 " @@ -2502,7 +2520,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1984 +#: complete-book.xml:2000 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 " @@ -2512,7 +2530,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1992 +#: complete-book.xml:2008 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 " @@ -2525,7 +2543,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2002 +#: complete-book.xml:2018 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 " @@ -2537,12 +2555,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2012 +#: complete-book.xml:2028 msgid "Surveillance still matters" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2014 +#: complete-book.xml:2030 msgid "" "None of this is to minimize the problems with surveillance. Surveillance " "matters, and Big Tech’s use of surveillance <emphasis>is</emphasis> an " @@ -2551,7 +2569,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2021 +#: complete-book.xml:2037 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 " @@ -2560,7 +2578,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2028 +#: complete-book.xml:2044 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 " @@ -2571,7 +2589,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2037 +#: complete-book.xml:2053 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 " @@ -2593,7 +2611,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2058 +#: complete-book.xml:2074 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 " @@ -2603,7 +2621,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2066 +#: complete-book.xml:2082 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 " @@ -2613,7 +2631,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2073 +#: complete-book.xml:2089 msgid "" "Mass state surveillance is only feasible because of surveillance capitalism " "and its extremely low-yield ad-targeting systems, which require a constant " @@ -2624,7 +2642,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2081 +#: complete-book.xml:2097 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 " @@ -2635,7 +2653,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2090 +#: complete-book.xml:2106 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 " @@ -2652,7 +2670,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2106 +#: complete-book.xml:2122 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 " @@ -2666,7 +2684,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2118 +#: complete-book.xml:2134 msgid "" "Ring and law enforcement have found many ways to intertwine their " "activities. Ring strikes secret deals to acquire real-time access to 911 " @@ -2676,7 +2694,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2126 +#: complete-book.xml:2142 msgid "" "The more the cops buzz-market the surveillance capitalist Ring, the more " "surveillance capability the state gets. Cops who rely on private entities " @@ -2689,12 +2707,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2137 +#: complete-book.xml:2153 msgid "Dignity and sanctuary" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2139 +#: complete-book.xml:2155 msgid "" "But even if we could exercise democratic control over our states and force " "them to stop raiding surveillance capitalism’s reservoirs of behavioral " @@ -2702,7 +2720,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2144 +#: complete-book.xml:2160 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, " @@ -2710,7 +2728,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2149 +#: complete-book.xml:2165 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 " @@ -2728,7 +2746,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2165 +#: complete-book.xml:2181 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 " @@ -2738,14 +2756,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2173 +#: complete-book.xml:2189 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:2177 +#: complete-book.xml:2193 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 " @@ -2758,7 +2776,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2188 +#: complete-book.xml:2204 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 " @@ -2771,7 +2789,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2198 +#: complete-book.xml:2214 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 " @@ -2782,12 +2800,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2207 +#: complete-book.xml:2223 msgid "Afflicting the afflicted" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2209 +#: complete-book.xml:2225 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 " @@ -2797,7 +2815,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2216 +#: complete-book.xml:2232 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 " @@ -2809,7 +2827,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2226 +#: complete-book.xml:2242 msgid "" "Today, these activities aren’t just decriminalized in much of the world, " "they’re considered normal, and the fallen prohibitions are viewed as " @@ -2817,7 +2835,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2231 +#: complete-book.xml:2247 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 " @@ -2832,7 +2850,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2244 +#: complete-book.xml:2260 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 " @@ -2842,7 +2860,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2251 +#: complete-book.xml:2267 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 " @@ -2851,7 +2869,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2258 +#: complete-book.xml:2274 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 " @@ -2865,17 +2883,17 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2270 +#: complete-book.xml:2286 msgid "A private realm is necessary for human progress." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2273 +#: complete-book.xml:2289 msgid "Any data you collect and retain will eventually leak" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2275 +#: complete-book.xml:2291 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 " @@ -2884,7 +2902,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2281 +#: complete-book.xml:2297 msgid "" "Personally identifying information is of very limited use for the purpose of " "controlling peoples’ minds, but identity theft — really a catchall term for " @@ -2894,7 +2912,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2289 +#: complete-book.xml:2305 msgid "" "Attackers are not limited to using data from one breached source, " "either. Multiple services have suffered breaches that exposed names, " @@ -2908,7 +2926,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2301 +#: complete-book.xml:2317 msgid "" "For example, attackers can use leaked username and password combinations to " "hijack whole fleets of commercial vehicles that <ulink " @@ -2923,7 +2941,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2314 +#: complete-book.xml:2330 msgid "" "Attackers are endlessly inventive in the pursuit of creative ways to " "weaponize leaked data. One common use of leaked data is to penetrate " @@ -2931,7 +2949,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2319 +#: complete-book.xml:2335 msgid "" "Like spies, online fraudsters are totally dependent on companies " "over-collecting and over-retaining our data. Spy agencies sometimes pay " @@ -2942,7 +2960,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2327 +#: complete-book.xml:2343 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, " @@ -2952,12 +2970,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2335 +#: complete-book.xml:2351 msgid "Critical tech exceptionalism is still tech exceptionalism" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2338 +#: complete-book.xml:2354 msgid "" "Big Tech has long practiced technology exceptionalism: the idea that it " "should not be subject to the mundane laws and norms of " @@ -2967,14 +2985,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2344 +#: complete-book.xml:2360 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:2348 +#: complete-book.xml:2364 msgid "" "Big Tech is not a <quote>rogue capitalism</quote> that cannot be cured " "through the traditional anti-monopoly remedies of trustbusting (forcing " @@ -2987,7 +3005,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2358 +#: complete-book.xml:2374 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 " @@ -2995,7 +3013,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2364 +#: complete-book.xml:2380 msgid "" "For generations, the advertising industry has been steadily improving its " "ability to sell advertising services to businesses while only making " @@ -3007,7 +3025,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2374 +#: complete-book.xml:2390 msgid "" "The tech industry has made enormous improvements in the science of " "convincing businesses that they’re good at advertising while their actual " @@ -3021,7 +3039,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2386 +#: complete-book.xml:2402 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 " @@ -3037,7 +3055,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2400 +#: complete-book.xml:2416 msgid "" "The claims of Big Tech’s mind-control system are full of tells that the " "enterprise is a con. For example, <ulink " @@ -3051,7 +3069,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2410 +#: complete-book.xml:2426 msgid "" "Big Tech’s promotional materials also claim that their algorithms can " "accurately perform <quote>sentiment analysis</quote> or detect peoples’ " @@ -3067,7 +3085,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2423 +#: complete-book.xml:2439 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 " @@ -3081,7 +3099,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2435 +#: complete-book.xml:2451 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 " @@ -3094,7 +3112,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2445 +#: complete-book.xml:2461 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 " @@ -3111,7 +3129,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2460 +#: complete-book.xml:2476 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 " @@ -3120,7 +3138,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2466 +#: complete-book.xml:2482 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 " @@ -3129,7 +3147,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2473 +#: complete-book.xml:2489 msgid "" "Big Tech collects our data for many reasons, including the diminishing " "returns on existing stores of data. But many tech companies also collect " @@ -3141,7 +3159,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2483 +#: complete-book.xml:2499 msgid "" "Data mined for predictive systems doesn’t necessarily produce these " "dividends. Think of Netflix: The predictive value of the data mined from a " @@ -3154,7 +3172,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2494 +#: complete-book.xml:2510 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 " @@ -3166,7 +3184,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2503 +#: complete-book.xml:2519 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 " @@ -3182,14 +3200,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2517 +#: complete-book.xml:2533 msgid "" "How monopolies, not mind control, drive surveillance capitalism: The " "Snapchat story" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2520 +#: complete-book.xml:2536 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 " @@ -3201,7 +3219,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2530 +#: complete-book.xml:2546 msgid "" "Despite frequent promises that it would never collect or analyze its users’ " "data, Facebook periodically created initiatives that did just that, like the " @@ -3215,7 +3233,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2542 +#: complete-book.xml:2558 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 " @@ -3226,7 +3244,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2550 +#: complete-book.xml:2566 msgid "" "All the while, Facebook was prodigiously acquiring companies, including a " "company called Onavo. Nominally, Onavo made a battery-monitoring mobile " @@ -3236,7 +3254,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2558 +#: complete-book.xml:2574 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 " @@ -3250,7 +3268,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2570 +#: complete-book.xml:2586 msgid "" "The story of how Facebook crushed Snapchat reveals the relationship between " "monopoly and surveillance capitalism. Facebook combined surveillance with " @@ -3264,12 +3282,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2582 +#: complete-book.xml:2598 msgid "A monopoly over your friends" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2584 +#: complete-book.xml:2600 msgid "" "A decentralization movement has tried to erode the dominance of Facebook and " "other Big Tech companies by fielding <quote>indieweb</quote> alternatives — " @@ -3278,7 +3296,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2591 +#: complete-book.xml:2607 msgid "" "Fundamentally, each of these services is hamstrung by the same problem: " "Every potential user for a Facebook or Twitter alternative has to convince " @@ -3290,7 +3308,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2601 +#: complete-book.xml:2617 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 " @@ -3298,7 +3316,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2606 +#: complete-book.xml:2622 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 " @@ -3307,12 +3325,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2613 +#: complete-book.xml:2629 msgid "The hard problem of our species is coordination." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2617 +#: complete-book.xml:2633 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, " @@ -3324,7 +3342,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2626 +#: complete-book.xml:2642 msgid "" "Interoperability is often a source of innovation and consumer benefit: Apple " "made the first commercially successful PC, but millions of independent " @@ -3341,7 +3359,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2641 +#: complete-book.xml:2657 msgid "" "<quote>Interoperability</quote> is often used interchangeably with " "<quote>standardization,</quote> which is the process when manufacturers and " @@ -3352,7 +3370,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2649 +#: complete-book.xml:2665 msgid "" "But interoperability doesn’t require standardization — indeed, " "standardization often proceeds from the chaos of ad hoc interoperability " @@ -3366,7 +3384,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2660 +#: complete-book.xml:2676 msgid "" "Beyond neutral interoperability, there is <quote>adversarial " "interoperability.</quote> That’s when a manufacturer makes a product that " @@ -3376,7 +3394,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2668 +#: complete-book.xml:2684 msgid "" "Probably the most familiar form of adversarial interoperability is " "third-party printer ink. Printer manufacturers claim that they sell printers " @@ -3388,7 +3406,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2677 +#: complete-book.xml:2693 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 " @@ -3403,7 +3421,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2690 +#: complete-book.xml:2706 msgid "" "Adversarial interoperability has played an outsized role in the history of " "the tech industry: from the founding of the <quote>alt.*</quote> Usenet " @@ -3419,7 +3437,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2704 +#: complete-book.xml:2720 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 " @@ -3436,7 +3454,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2719 +#: complete-book.xml:2735 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 " @@ -3448,7 +3466,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2729 +#: complete-book.xml:2745 msgid "" "In the absence of a competitive market, lawmakers have resorted to assigning " "expensive, state-like duties to Big Tech firms, such as automatically " @@ -3458,7 +3476,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2737 +#: complete-book.xml:2753 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 " @@ -3466,7 +3484,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2742 +#: complete-book.xml:2758 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 " @@ -3480,7 +3498,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2754 +#: complete-book.xml:2770 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 " @@ -3493,7 +3511,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2764 +#: complete-book.xml:2780 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 " @@ -3508,12 +3526,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2776 +#: complete-book.xml:2792 msgid "Fake news is an epistemological crisis" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2778 +#: complete-book.xml:2794 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 " @@ -3522,7 +3540,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2785 +#: complete-book.xml:2801 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 " @@ -3531,7 +3549,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2791 +#: complete-book.xml:2807 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 " @@ -3541,7 +3559,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2799 +#: complete-book.xml:2815 msgid "" "That means that whenever a regulator asks a question with an obvious, " "empirical answer (<quote>Are humans causing climate change?</quote> or " @@ -3553,7 +3571,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2808 +#: complete-book.xml:2824 msgid "" "Rich people have always played an outsized role in politics and more so " "since the Supreme Court’s <emphasis>Citizens United</emphasis> decision " @@ -3564,7 +3582,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2817 +#: complete-book.xml:2833 msgid "" "But the policy distortions of rich individuals pale in comparison to the " "policy distortions that concentrated industries are capable of. The " @@ -3575,7 +3593,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2826 +#: complete-book.xml:2842 msgid "" "Concentrated industries also find it easier to collaborate on policy " "objectives than competitive ones. When all the top execs from your industry " @@ -3585,7 +3603,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2833 +#: complete-book.xml:2849 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 " @@ -3599,7 +3617,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2845 +#: complete-book.xml:2861 msgid "" "Highly concentrated industries also present a regulatory conundrum. When an " "industry is dominated by just four or five companies, the only people who " @@ -3612,7 +3630,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2856 +#: complete-book.xml:2872 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 " @@ -3621,7 +3639,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2862 +#: complete-book.xml:2878 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 " @@ -3637,7 +3655,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2876 +#: complete-book.xml:2892 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 " @@ -3655,7 +3673,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2893 +#: complete-book.xml:2909 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 " @@ -3666,12 +3684,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2902 +#: complete-book.xml:2918 msgid "Right now, it’s obviously not." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2905 +#: complete-book.xml:2921 msgid "" "The past 40 years of rising inequality and industry concentration, together " "with increasingly weak accountability and transparency for expert agencies, " @@ -3682,7 +3700,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2913 +#: complete-book.xml:2929 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 " @@ -3695,7 +3713,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2924 +#: complete-book.xml:2940 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 " @@ -3706,7 +3724,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2933 +#: complete-book.xml:2949 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 " @@ -3724,7 +3742,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2950 +#: complete-book.xml:2966 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 " @@ -3734,7 +3752,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2958 +#: complete-book.xml:2974 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 " @@ -3745,7 +3763,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2967 +#: complete-book.xml:2983 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 " @@ -3755,7 +3773,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2975 +#: complete-book.xml:2991 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 " @@ -3763,7 +3781,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2980 +#: complete-book.xml:2996 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 " @@ -3771,7 +3789,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2985 +#: complete-book.xml:3001 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 " @@ -3785,7 +3803,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2996 +#: complete-book.xml:3012 msgid "" "Targeting — surveillance capitalism — makes it easier to find people who are " "undergoing this epistemological crisis, but it doesn’t create the " @@ -3793,7 +3811,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3001 +#: complete-book.xml:3017 msgid "" "And, conveniently enough, it’s corruption that allows surveillance " "capitalism to grow by dismantling monopoly protections, by permitting " @@ -3804,12 +3822,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3010 +#: complete-book.xml:3026 msgid "Tech is different" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3012 +#: complete-book.xml:3028 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 " @@ -3819,7 +3837,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3020 +#: complete-book.xml:3036 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 " @@ -3827,7 +3845,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3025 +#: complete-book.xml:3041 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 " @@ -3840,7 +3858,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3036 +#: complete-book.xml:3052 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 " @@ -3848,7 +3866,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3041 +#: complete-book.xml:3057 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 " @@ -3857,7 +3875,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3047 +#: complete-book.xml:3063 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 " @@ -3868,7 +3886,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3056 +#: complete-book.xml:3072 msgid "" "This means that every time someone with a special communications need " "invests in infrastructure and techniques to make the internet faster, " @@ -3880,7 +3898,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3065 +#: complete-book.xml:3081 msgid "" "For these reasons, every type of communication is gradually absorbed into " "the internet, and every type of device — from airplanes to pacemakers — " @@ -3888,7 +3906,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3070 +#: complete-book.xml:3086 msgid "" "While these considerations don’t preclude regulating networks and computers, " "they do call for gravitas and caution when doing so because changes to " @@ -3897,7 +3915,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3076 +#: complete-book.xml:3092 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 " @@ -3907,12 +3925,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3084 +#: complete-book.xml:3100 msgid "Ownership of facts" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3086 +#: complete-book.xml:3102 msgid "" "Big Tech has a funny relationship with information. When you’re generating " "information — anything from the location data streaming off your mobile " @@ -3921,7 +3939,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3093 +#: complete-book.xml:3109 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 " @@ -3931,7 +3949,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3100 +#: complete-book.xml:3116 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 " @@ -3941,7 +3959,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3107 +#: complete-book.xml:3123 msgid "" "Information rarely has such a clear title. Take phone numbers: There’s " "clearly something going wrong when Facebook slurps up millions of users’ " @@ -3950,7 +3968,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3114 +#: complete-book.xml:3130 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 " @@ -3962,7 +3980,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3123 +#: complete-book.xml:3139 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 " @@ -3977,7 +3995,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3136 +#: complete-book.xml:3152 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 " @@ -3989,7 +4007,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3145 +#: complete-book.xml:3161 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 " @@ -4001,7 +4019,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3154 +#: complete-book.xml:3170 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 " @@ -4014,7 +4032,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3165 +#: complete-book.xml:3181 msgid "" "Meanwhile, establishing property rights over information will create " "insurmountable barriers to independent data processing. Imagine that we " @@ -4030,7 +4048,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3180 +#: complete-book.xml:3196 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 " @@ -4046,7 +4064,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3194 +#: complete-book.xml:3210 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 " @@ -4058,12 +4076,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3204 +#: complete-book.xml:3220 msgid "Persuasion works… slowly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3206 +#: complete-book.xml:3222 msgid "" "The platforms may oversell their ability to persuade people, but obviously, " "persuasion works sometimes. Whether it’s the private realm that LGBTQ people " @@ -4074,7 +4092,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3215 +#: complete-book.xml:3231 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 " @@ -4087,7 +4105,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3226 +#: complete-book.xml:3242 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 " @@ -4099,7 +4117,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3236 +#: complete-book.xml:3252 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 " @@ -4111,7 +4129,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3245 +#: complete-book.xml:3261 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 " @@ -4131,19 +4149,19 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3264 +#: complete-book.xml:3280 msgid "Paying won’t help" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3266 +#: complete-book.xml:3282 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:3270 +#: complete-book.xml:3286 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 " @@ -4157,7 +4175,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3282 +#: complete-book.xml:3298 msgid "" "But the degradation of news products long precedes the advent of " "ad-supported online news. Long before newspapers were online, lax antitrust " @@ -4172,7 +4190,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3295 +#: complete-book.xml:3311 msgid "" "Then, as news companies <emphasis>did</emphasis> come online, the ad " "revenues they commanded dropped even as the number of internet users (and " @@ -4185,7 +4203,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3305 +#: complete-book.xml:3321 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 " @@ -4205,7 +4223,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3324 +#: complete-book.xml:3340 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 " @@ -4219,7 +4237,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3335 +#: complete-book.xml:3351 msgid "" "Perhaps paying would fix this, the reasoning goes. If platforms could be " "economically viable even if you stopped clicking on them once your " @@ -4228,7 +4246,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3342 +#: complete-book.xml:3358 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 " @@ -4236,7 +4254,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3347 +#: complete-book.xml:3363 msgid "" "Platforms are world-spanning and all-encompassing because they are " "monopolies, and they are monopolies because we have gutted our most " @@ -4249,7 +4267,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3358 +#: complete-book.xml:3374 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 " @@ -4257,7 +4275,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3363 +#: complete-book.xml:3379 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 " @@ -4273,7 +4291,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3377 +#: complete-book.xml:3393 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 " @@ -4288,7 +4306,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3390 +#: complete-book.xml:3406 msgid "" "Advocates for markets laud their ability to aggregate the diffused knowledge " "of buyers and sellers across a whole society through demand signals, price " @@ -4302,7 +4320,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3402 +#: complete-book.xml:3418 msgid "" "The profitability of any business is constrained by the possibility that its " "customers will take their business elsewhere. Both surveillance and lock-in " @@ -4314,7 +4332,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3412 +#: complete-book.xml:3428 msgid "" "Ultimately, surveillance and lock-in are both simply business strategies " "that monopolists can choose. Surveillance companies like Google are " @@ -4330,12 +4348,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3427 +#: complete-book.xml:3443 msgid "An <quote>ecology</quote> moment for trustbusting" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3429 +#: complete-book.xml:3445 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 " @@ -4345,7 +4363,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3436 +#: complete-book.xml:3452 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 " @@ -4356,7 +4374,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3444 +#: complete-book.xml:3460 msgid "" "But trustbusters once strode the nation, brandishing law books, terrorizing " "robber barons, and shattering the illusion of monopolies’ all-powerful grip " @@ -4366,12 +4384,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3452 +#: complete-book.xml:3468 msgid "Could we find that political will again?" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3455 +#: complete-book.xml:3471 msgid "" "Copyright scholar James Boyle has described how the term " "<quote>ecology</quote> marked a turning point in environmental " @@ -4382,7 +4400,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3463 +#: complete-book.xml:3479 msgid "" "But the term <quote>ecology</quote> welded these disparate causes together " "into a single movement, and the members of this movement found solidarity " @@ -4395,7 +4413,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3474 +#: complete-book.xml:3490 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 " @@ -4404,7 +4422,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3480 +#: complete-book.xml:3496 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 " @@ -4416,7 +4434,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3490 +#: complete-book.xml:3506 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 " @@ -4425,7 +4443,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3496 +#: complete-book.xml:3512 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 " @@ -4433,7 +4451,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3501 +#: complete-book.xml:3517 msgid "" "Big Tech’s concentration currently means that their inaction on harassment, " "for example, leaves users with an impossible choice: absent themselves from " @@ -4447,7 +4465,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3513 +#: complete-book.xml:3529 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 " @@ -4458,7 +4476,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3522 +#: complete-book.xml:3538 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 " @@ -4469,7 +4487,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3531 +#: complete-book.xml:3547 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 " @@ -4484,7 +4502,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3543 +#: complete-book.xml:3559 msgid "" "Allowing the platforms to grow to their present size has given them a " "dominance that is nearly insurmountable — deputizing them with public duties " @@ -4496,7 +4514,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3553 +#: complete-book.xml:3569 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 " @@ -4507,12 +4525,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3561 +#: complete-book.xml:3577 msgid "Make Big Tech small again" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3563 +#: complete-book.xml:3579 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 " @@ -4523,14 +4541,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3573 +#: complete-book.xml:3589 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:3578 +#: complete-book.xml:3594 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, " @@ -4540,7 +4558,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3586 +#: complete-book.xml:3602 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 " @@ -4552,7 +4570,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3595 +#: complete-book.xml:3611 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 " @@ -4568,7 +4586,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3609 +#: complete-book.xml:3625 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 " @@ -4579,7 +4597,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3618 +#: complete-book.xml:3634 msgid "" "In an important sense, it doesn’t matter which industry the breakups begin " "in. Once they start, shareholders in <emphasis>every</emphasis> industry " @@ -4598,12 +4616,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3635 +#: complete-book.xml:3651 msgid "20 GOTO 10" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3637 +#: complete-book.xml:3653 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 " @@ -4613,7 +4631,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3644 +#: complete-book.xml:3660 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 " @@ -4622,14 +4640,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3651 +#: complete-book.xml:3667 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:3656 +#: complete-book.xml:3672 msgid "" "Getting people to care about monopolies will take technological " "interventions that help them to see what a world free from Big Tech might " @@ -4644,7 +4662,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3668 +#: complete-book.xml:3684 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 " @@ -4660,7 +4678,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3682 +#: complete-book.xml:3698 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 " @@ -4672,7 +4690,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3691 +#: complete-book.xml:3707 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 " @@ -4685,7 +4703,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3702 +#: complete-book.xml:3718 msgid "" "Surveillance doesn’t make capitalism rogue. Capitalism’s unchecked rule " "begets surveillance. Surveillance isn’t bad because it lets people " @@ -4697,19 +4715,19 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3711 +#: complete-book.xml:3727 msgid "Up and through" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3713 +#: complete-book.xml:3729 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:3718 +#: complete-book.xml:3734 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 " @@ -4721,7 +4739,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3728 +#: complete-book.xml:3744 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 "