From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:35:39 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Updated POT file. X-Git-Tag: nb-printed-2021-01-24~380 X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-destroy-surveillance.git/commitdiff_plain/6ced2ca21671f4dbcf6a31879de722ada271c95c?ds=sidebyside Updated POT file. --- diff --git a/po/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.pot b/po/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.pot index f247332..f95b532 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: 2020-10-11 16:56+0200\n" +"POT-Creation-Date: 2020-10-12 17:35+0200\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n" @@ -17,33 +17,33 @@ msgstr "" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #. type: Attribute 'lang' of: -#: complete-book.xml:4 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:4 msgid "en" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: -#: complete-book.xml:6 complete-book.xml:71 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:6 how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:71 msgid "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><authorgroup><author><firstname> -#: complete-book.xml:11 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:11 msgid "Cory" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><authorgroup><author><surname> -#: complete-book.xml:12 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:12 msgid "Doctorow" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><publisher><address> -#: complete-book.xml:17 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:17 #, no-wrap msgid "<city>Oslo</city>" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo> -#: complete-book.xml:15 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:15 msgid "" "<publisher> <publishername>Petter Reinholdtsen</publishername> <placeholder " "type=\"address\" id=\"0\"/> </publisher> <copyright> <year>2020</year> " @@ -52,32 +52,32 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:32 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:32 msgid "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:35 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:35 msgid "Published by Petter Reinholdtsen." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:39 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:39 msgid "ISBN 978-82-93828-05-1 (hard cover)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:42 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:42 msgid "ISBN 978-82-93828-06-8 (paperback)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:45 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:45 msgid "ISBN 978-82-93828-07-5 (ePub)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para><inlinemediaobject> -#: complete-book.xml:50 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:50 msgid "" "<imageobject> <imagedata fileref=\"images/cc.png\" contentdepth=\"3em\" " "width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"/> </imageobject> <imageobject> <imagedata " @@ -86,17 +86,17 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para><inlinemediaobject><textobject><phrase> -#: complete-book.xml:57 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:57 msgid "Creative Commons, Some rights reserved" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:49 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:49 msgid "<placeholder type=\"inlinemediaobject\" id=\"0\"/>" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:63 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:63 msgid "" "This book is licensed under a Creative Commons license. This license permits " "any use of this work, so long as attribution is given and no derivatived " @@ -105,12 +105,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:73 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:73 msgid "The net of a thousand lies" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:75 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:75 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 " @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:83 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:83 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 " @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:90 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:90 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 " @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:96 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:96 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 " @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:102 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:102 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 " @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:115 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:115 msgid "" "The arguments for ridiculous beliefs in odious conspiracies like " "anti-vaccination, climate denial, a flat Earth, and eugenics are no better " @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:122 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:122 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 " @@ -183,14 +183,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:131 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:131 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:135 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:135 msgid "" "Some people think so. Today, there is a widespread belief that machine " "learning and commercial surveillance can turn even the most fumble-tongued " @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:151 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:151 msgid "" "After all, in a world where sprawling and incoherent conspiracy theories " "like Pizzagate and its successor, QAnon, have widespread followings, " @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:156 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:156 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 " @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:166 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:166 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 " @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:174 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:174 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 " @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:186 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:186 msgid "" "But firefighting is reactive. We need fire " "<emphasis>prevention</emphasis>. We need to strike at the traumatic material " @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:192 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:192 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>, " @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:203 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:203 msgid "" "There’s a critical piece missing from the debate, though. All these " "solutions assume that tech companies are a fixture, that their dominance " @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:213 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:213 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 " @@ -299,19 +299,19 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:221 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:221 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:225 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:225 msgid "Digital rights activism, a quarter-century on" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:227 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:227 msgid "" "Digital rights activism is more than 30 years old now. The Electronic " "Frontier Foundation turned 30 this year; the Free Software Foundation " @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:248 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:248 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 " @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:269 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:269 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 " @@ -366,12 +366,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:275 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:275 msgid "Tech exceptionalism, then and now" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:277 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:277 msgid "" "Early critics of the digital rights movement — perhaps best represented by " "campaigning organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free " @@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:292 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:292 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 " @@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:300 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:300 msgid "" "From my perspective, the digital rights movement has remained stationary " "while the rest of the world has moved. From the earliest days, the " @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:311 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:311 msgid "" "The <quote>surveillance capitalism</quote> critique recasts the digital " "rights movement in a new light again: not as alarmists who overestimate the " @@ -423,17 +423,17 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:319 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:319 msgid "But tech exceptionalism is a sin no matter who practices it." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:322 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:322 msgid "Don’t believe the hype" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:324 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:324 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. " @@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:334 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:334 msgid "" "The fear of surveillance capitalism starts from the (correct) presumption " "that everything Big Tech says about itself is probably a lie. But the " @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:346 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:346 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 " @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:353 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:353 msgid "" "Being watched changes your behavior, and not for the better. It creates " "risks for our social progress. Zuboff’s book features beautifully wrought " @@ -484,12 +484,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:367 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:367 msgid "What is persuasion?" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:369 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:369 msgid "" "To understand why you shouldn’t worry about mind-control rays — but why you " "<emphasis>should</emphasis> worry about surveillance " @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:375 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:375 msgid "" "Google, Facebook, and other surveillance capitalists promise their customers " "(the advertisers) that if they use machine-learning tools trained on " @@ -509,14 +509,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:384 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:384 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:389 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:389 msgid "" "But there’s little evidence that this is happening. Instead, the predictions " "that surveillance capitalism delivers to its customers are much less " @@ -526,12 +526,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:396 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:396 msgid "1. Segmenting" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:398 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:398 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 " @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:409 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:409 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 " @@ -558,22 +558,22 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:423 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:423 msgid "This is seriously creepy." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:426 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:426 msgid "But it’s not mind control." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:429 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:429 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:432 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:432 msgid "" "Think of how surveillance capitalism works in politics. Surveillance " "capitalist companies sell political operatives the power to locate people " @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:443 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:443 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 " @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:453 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:453 msgid "" "Because targeting improves the yields on political pitches, it can " "accelerate the pace of political upheaval by making it possible for everyone " @@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:464 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:464 msgid "" "It’s important to differentiate this kind of political organizing from " "influence campaigns; finding people who secretly agree with you isn’t the " @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:473 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:473 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 " @@ -634,12 +634,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:482 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:482 msgid "2. Deception" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:484 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:484 msgid "" "Lies and fraud are pernicious, and surveillance capitalism supercharges them " "through targeting. If you want to sell a fraudulent payday loan or subprime " @@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:496 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:496 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 " @@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:506 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:506 msgid "" "Sometimes, online deception involves replacing someone’s correct beliefs " "with incorrect ones, as it does in the anti-vaccination movement, whose " @@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:513 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:513 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, " @@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:524 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:524 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, " @@ -706,12 +706,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:541 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:541 msgid "3. Domination" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:543 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:543 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalism is the result of monopoly. Monopoly is the cause, " "and surveillance capitalism and its negative outcomes are the effects of " @@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:552 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:552 msgid "" "One example of how monopolism aids in persuasion is through dominance: " "Google makes editorial decisions about its algorithms that determine the " @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:565 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:565 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 " @@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:577 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:577 msgid "" "Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism a <quote>rogue capitalism</quote> whose " "data-hoarding and machine-learning techniques rob us of our free will. But " @@ -767,12 +767,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:592 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:592 msgid "4. Bypassing our rational faculties" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:594 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:594 msgid "" "<emphasis>This</emphasis> is the good stuff: using machine learning, " "<quote>dark patterns,</quote> engagement hacking, and other techniques to " @@ -781,7 +781,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:600 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:600 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 " @@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:613 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:613 msgid "" "Games are extraordinarily good at this. <quote>Free to play</quote> games " "manipulate us through many techniques, such as presenting players with a " @@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:624 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:624 msgid "" "Companies have risen and fallen on these techniques, and the " "<quote>fallen</quote> part is worth paying attention to. In general, living " @@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:634 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:634 msgid "" "That’s why behavioral conditioning uses <quote>intermittent reinforcement " "schedules.</quote> Instead of giving you a steady drip of encouragement or " @@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:642 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:642 msgid "" "Intermittent reinforcement is a powerful behavioral tool, but it also " "represents a collective action problem for surveillance capitalism. The " @@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:657 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:657 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 " @@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:672 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:672 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 " @@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:680 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:680 msgid "" "But surveillance capitalism’s margins on behavioral modification " "suck. Tripling the rate at which someone buys a widget sounds great <ulink " @@ -886,7 +886,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:690 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:690 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 " @@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:708 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:708 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 " @@ -913,12 +913,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:715 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:715 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:718 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:718 msgid "" "This adaptation problem offers an explanation for one of surveillance " "capitalism’s most alarming traits: its relentless hunger for data and its " @@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:725 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:725 msgid "" "Zuboff observes this phenomenon and concludes that data must be very " "valuable if surveillance capitalism is so hungry for it. (In her words: " @@ -945,14 +945,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:740 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:740 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:745 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:745 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 " @@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:759 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:759 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 " @@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:766 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:766 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 " @@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:773 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:773 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 " @@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:783 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:783 msgid "" "There is one way in which targeted advertising uniquely benefits those " "advocating for socially unacceptable causes: It is invisible. Racism is " @@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:798 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:798 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 " @@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:806 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:806 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 " @@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:817 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:817 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 " @@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:831 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:831 msgid "" "These layers of indirection between advertisers and publishers serve as " "moral buffers: Today’s moral consensus is largely that publishers shouldn’t " @@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:839 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:839 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 " @@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:844 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:844 msgid "" "More importantly, if you can dominate the information space while also " "gathering data, then you make other deceptive tactics stronger because it’s " @@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:853 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:853 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 " @@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:862 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:862 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalists are like stage mentalists who claim that their " "extraordinary insights into human behavior let them guess the word that you " @@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:869 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:869 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 " @@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:877 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:877 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 " @@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:888 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:888 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 " @@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:897 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:897 msgid "" "Pick-up artists are proof that people can believe they have developed a " "system of mind control <emphasis>even when it doesn’t " @@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:915 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:915 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 " @@ -1171,12 +1171,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:925 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:925 msgid "What is Facebook?" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:927 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:927 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 " @@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:939 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:939 msgid "" "Facebook’s surveillance regime is really without parallel in the Western " "world. Though Facebook tries to prevent itself from being visible on the " @@ -1205,14 +1205,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:953 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:953 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:958 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:958 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 " @@ -1226,7 +1226,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:969 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:969 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 " @@ -1240,7 +1240,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:981 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:981 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 " @@ -1253,14 +1253,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:992 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:992 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:997 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:997 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 " @@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1012 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1012 msgid "" "Facebook makes finding people shopping for refrigerators a " "<emphasis>lot</emphasis> easier. It can target ads to people who’ve " @@ -1294,7 +1294,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1028 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1028 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 " @@ -1305,7 +1305,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1036 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1036 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 " @@ -1320,7 +1320,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1049 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1049 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 " @@ -1334,7 +1334,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1060 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1060 msgid "" "To make things worse, many Facebook groups spark precious little " "discussion. Your little-league soccer team, the people with the same rare " @@ -1345,7 +1345,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1068 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1068 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 " @@ -1354,7 +1354,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1074 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1074 msgid "" "So Facebook has to gin up traffic by sidetracking its own forums: Every time " "Facebook’s algorithm injects controversial materials — inflammatory " @@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1085 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1085 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 " @@ -1380,7 +1380,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1096 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1096 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 " @@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1106 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1106 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 " @@ -1406,12 +1406,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1118 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1118 msgid "Monopoly and the right to the future tense" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1120 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1120 msgid "" "Zuboff and her cohort are particularly alarmed at the extent to which " "surveillance allows corporations to influence our decisions, taking away " @@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1127 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1127 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 " @@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1138 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1138 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, " @@ -1444,7 +1444,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1146 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1146 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, " @@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1152 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1152 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 " @@ -1462,7 +1462,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1158 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1158 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 " @@ -1473,7 +1473,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1166 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1166 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 " @@ -1487,7 +1487,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1178 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1178 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 " @@ -1498,7 +1498,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1186 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1186 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 " @@ -1507,7 +1507,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1193 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1193 msgid "" "So DVD and DVD player manufacturers would not be able to use accusations of " "abetting copyright infringement to punish manufacturers who made " @@ -1517,7 +1517,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1201 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1201 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 " @@ -1527,7 +1527,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1208 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1208 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 " @@ -1535,14 +1535,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><itemizedlist><listitem><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1216 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1216 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:1222 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1222 msgid "" "A device can be designed so that reconfiguring the software requires " "bypassing an <quote>access control for copyrighted works,</quote> which is a " @@ -1550,7 +1550,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><itemizedlist><listitem><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1229 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1229 msgid "" "Thus, companies can control their customers’ behavior after they take home " "their purchases by designing products so that all unpermitted uses require " @@ -1558,7 +1558,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1237 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1237 msgid "" "Section 1201 then becomes a means for manufacturers of all descriptions to " "force their customers to arrange their affairs to benefit the manufacturers’ " @@ -1566,7 +1566,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1242 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1242 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 " @@ -1577,7 +1577,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1251 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1251 msgid "" "Closer to home, Apple’s iPhones use these measures to prevent both " "third-party service and third-party software installation. This allows Apple " @@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1264 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1264 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 " @@ -1603,7 +1603,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1274 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1274 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 " @@ -1619,7 +1619,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1287 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1287 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 " @@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1301 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1301 msgid "" "Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism a <quote>rogue capitalism.</quote> " "Theoreticians of capitalism claim that its virtue is that it <ulink " @@ -1649,7 +1649,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1312 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1312 msgid "" "If our concern is that markets cease to function when consumers can no " "longer make choices, then copyright locks should concern us at " @@ -1661,12 +1661,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1321 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1321 msgid "Search order and the right to the future tense" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1323 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1323 msgid "" "Markets are posed as a kind of magic: By discovering otherwise hidden " "information conveyed by the free choices of consumers, those consumers’ " @@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1335 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1335 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 " @@ -1694,7 +1694,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1347 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1347 msgid "" "Google’s algorithm is often tricked into serving disinformation as a " "prominent search result. But in these cases, Google isn’t persuading people " @@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1353 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1353 msgid "" "This is true whether the search is for <quote>Are vaccines " "dangerous?</quote> or <quote>best restaurants near me.</quote> Most users " @@ -1717,7 +1717,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1364 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1364 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 " @@ -1731,7 +1731,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1375 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1375 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, " @@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1391 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1391 msgid "" "If we’re worried about giant companies subverting markets by stripping " "consumers of their ability to make free choices, then vigorous antitrust " @@ -1760,7 +1760,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1401 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1401 msgid "" "This goes for many other companies. Amazon, a classic surveillance " "capitalist, is obviously the dominant tool for searching Amazon — though " @@ -1777,7 +1777,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1416 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1416 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 " @@ -1793,7 +1793,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1431 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1431 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 " @@ -1807,12 +1807,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1443 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1443 msgid "Monopolists can afford sleeping pills for watchdogs" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1445 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1445 msgid "" "Only the most extreme market ideologues think that markets can self-regulate " "without state oversight. Markets need watchdogs — regulators, lawmakers, and " @@ -1824,7 +1824,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1455 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1455 msgid "" "But this kind of regulatory capture doesn’t come cheap. In competitive " "sectors, where rivals are constantly eroding one another’s margins, " @@ -1833,7 +1833,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1461 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1461 msgid "" "Many of the harms of surveillance capitalism are the result of weak or " "nonexistent regulation. Those regulatory vacuums spring from the power of " @@ -1842,7 +1842,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1467 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1467 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 " @@ -1853,14 +1853,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1476 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1476 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:1480 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1480 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 " @@ -1874,7 +1874,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1492 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1492 msgid "" "<emphasis role=\"strong\">2. They believe the surveillance capitalism " "story.</emphasis> Data is cheap to aggregate and store, and both proponents " @@ -1889,7 +1889,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1505 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1505 msgid "" "<emphasis role=\"strong\">3. The penalties for leaking data are " "negligible.</emphasis> Most countries limit these penalties to actual " @@ -1902,7 +1902,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1516 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1516 msgid "" "But the harms from breaches are much more extensive than these " "actual-damages rules capture. Identity thieves and fraudsters are wily and " @@ -1915,7 +1915,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1526 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1526 msgid "" "However, even the most ambitious privacy rules, such as the EU General Data " "Protection Regulation, fall far short of capturing the negative " @@ -1925,7 +1925,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1533 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1533 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 " @@ -1935,7 +1935,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1541 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1541 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 " @@ -1944,7 +1944,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1547 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1547 msgid "" "But state surveillance and private surveillance are intimately related. As " "we saw when Apple was conscripted by the Chinese government as a vital " @@ -1955,7 +1955,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1555 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1555 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 " @@ -1974,7 +1974,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1573 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1573 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 " @@ -1986,7 +1986,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1582 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1582 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 " @@ -2002,7 +2002,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1596 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1596 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 " @@ -2013,14 +2013,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1605 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1605 msgid "" "While surveillance doesn’t cause monopolies, monopolies certainly abet " "surveillance." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1610 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1610 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 " @@ -2031,7 +2031,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1618 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1618 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 " @@ -2041,12 +2041,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1626 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1626 msgid "But that threat grows out of monopoly." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1629 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1629 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 " @@ -2057,7 +2057,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1637 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1637 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 " @@ -2068,7 +2068,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1646 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1646 msgid "" "The monopoly power that keeps any meaningful consequences for breaches at " "bay means that tech companies continue to build terrible products that are " @@ -2080,7 +2080,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1656 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1656 msgid "" "These bad security decisions are compounded yet again by the use of " "copyright locks to enforce business-model decisions against " @@ -2091,7 +2091,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1664 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1664 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) " @@ -2101,7 +2101,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1672 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1672 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 " @@ -2111,7 +2111,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1680 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1680 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 " @@ -2124,7 +2124,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1690 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1690 msgid "" "And unlike mind-control rays, enforced silence over security is an " "immediate, documented problem, and it <emphasis>does</emphasis> constitute " @@ -2136,7 +2136,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1699 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1699 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 " @@ -2155,7 +2155,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1717 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1717 msgid "" "Typically, technology debt results in a technological bankruptcy: The " "product gets so brittle and unsustainable that it fails " @@ -2168,7 +2168,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1728 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1728 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 " @@ -2181,12 +2181,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1740 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1740 msgid "Privacy and monopoly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1742 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1742 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 " @@ -2200,7 +2200,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1754 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1754 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 " @@ -2214,7 +2214,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1766 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1766 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 " @@ -2222,7 +2222,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1772 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1772 msgid "" "There’s real irony here. The belief in surveillance capitalism as a " "<quote>rogue capitalism</quote> is driven by the belief that markets " @@ -2232,7 +2232,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1779 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1779 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 " @@ -2249,7 +2249,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1794 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1794 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 " @@ -2260,7 +2260,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1803 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1803 msgid "" "The reason the world’s governments have been slow to create meaningful " "penalties for privacy breaches is that Big Tech’s concentration produces " @@ -2270,14 +2270,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1811 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1811 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:1816 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1816 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 " @@ -2286,7 +2286,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1822 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1822 msgid "" "Competitive markets would weaken the companies’ lobbying muscle by reducing " "their profits and pitting them against each other in regulatory forums. It " @@ -2299,19 +2299,19 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1833 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1833 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:1837 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1837 msgid "Ronald Reagan, pioneer of tech monopolism" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1839 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1839 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 " @@ -2325,7 +2325,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1851 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1851 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 " @@ -2339,7 +2339,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1863 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1863 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 " @@ -2351,7 +2351,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1872 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1872 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 " @@ -2364,7 +2364,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1882 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1882 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 " @@ -2375,7 +2375,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1890 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1890 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 " @@ -2387,7 +2387,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1899 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1899 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 " @@ -2399,7 +2399,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1909 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1909 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 " @@ -2413,7 +2413,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1921 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1921 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 " @@ -2428,7 +2428,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1934 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1934 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 " @@ -2443,7 +2443,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1946 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1946 msgid "" "Indeed, the birth of the web saw a mass-extinction event for the existing " "giant, wildly profitable proprietary technologies that had capital, network " @@ -2459,7 +2459,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1960 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1960 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 " @@ -2473,7 +2473,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1972 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1972 msgid "" "In support of this thesis, I offer the concentration that every " "<emphasis>other</emphasis> industry has undergone over the same period. From " @@ -2490,7 +2490,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1987 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1987 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 " @@ -2505,12 +2505,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1999 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:1999 msgid "Steering with the windshield wipers" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2001 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2001 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 " @@ -2522,7 +2522,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2011 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2011 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 " @@ -2532,7 +2532,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2019 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2019 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 " @@ -2545,7 +2545,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2029 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2029 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 " @@ -2557,12 +2557,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2039 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2039 msgid "Surveillance still matters" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2041 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2041 msgid "" "None of this is to minimize the problems with surveillance. Surveillance " "matters, and Big Tech’s use of surveillance <emphasis>is</emphasis> an " @@ -2571,7 +2571,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2048 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2048 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 " @@ -2580,7 +2580,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2055 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2055 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 " @@ -2591,7 +2591,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2064 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2064 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 " @@ -2613,7 +2613,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2085 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2085 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 " @@ -2623,7 +2623,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2093 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2093 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 " @@ -2633,7 +2633,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2100 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2100 msgid "" "Mass state surveillance is only feasible because of surveillance capitalism " "and its extremely low-yield ad-targeting systems, which require a constant " @@ -2644,7 +2644,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2108 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2108 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 " @@ -2655,7 +2655,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2117 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2117 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 " @@ -2672,7 +2672,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2133 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2133 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 " @@ -2686,7 +2686,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2145 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2145 msgid "" "Ring and law enforcement have found many ways to intertwine their " "activities. Ring strikes secret deals to acquire real-time access to 911 " @@ -2696,7 +2696,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2153 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2153 msgid "" "The more the cops buzz-market the surveillance capitalist Ring, the more " "surveillance capability the state gets. Cops who rely on private entities " @@ -2709,12 +2709,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2164 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2164 msgid "Dignity and sanctuary" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2166 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2166 msgid "" "But even if we could exercise democratic control over our states and force " "them to stop raiding surveillance capitalism’s reservoirs of behavioral " @@ -2722,7 +2722,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2171 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2171 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, " @@ -2730,7 +2730,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2176 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2176 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 " @@ -2748,7 +2748,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2192 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2192 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 " @@ -2758,14 +2758,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2200 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2200 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:2204 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2204 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 " @@ -2778,7 +2778,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2215 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2215 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 " @@ -2791,7 +2791,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2225 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2225 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 " @@ -2802,12 +2802,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2234 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2234 msgid "Afflicting the afflicted" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2236 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2236 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 " @@ -2817,7 +2817,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2243 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2243 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 " @@ -2829,7 +2829,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2253 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2253 msgid "" "Today, these activities aren’t just decriminalized in much of the world, " "they’re considered normal, and the fallen prohibitions are viewed as " @@ -2837,7 +2837,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2258 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2258 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 " @@ -2852,7 +2852,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2271 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2271 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 " @@ -2862,7 +2862,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2278 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2278 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 " @@ -2871,7 +2871,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2285 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2285 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 " @@ -2885,17 +2885,17 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2297 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2297 msgid "A private realm is necessary for human progress." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2300 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2300 msgid "Any data you collect and retain will eventually leak" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2302 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2302 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 " @@ -2904,7 +2904,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2308 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2308 msgid "" "Personally identifying information is of very limited use for the purpose of " "controlling peoples’ minds, but identity theft — really a catchall term for " @@ -2914,7 +2914,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2316 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2316 msgid "" "Attackers are not limited to using data from one breached source, " "either. Multiple services have suffered breaches that exposed names, " @@ -2928,7 +2928,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2328 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2328 msgid "" "For example, attackers can use leaked username and password combinations to " "hijack whole fleets of commercial vehicles that <ulink " @@ -2943,7 +2943,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2341 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2341 msgid "" "Attackers are endlessly inventive in the pursuit of creative ways to " "weaponize leaked data. One common use of leaked data is to penetrate " @@ -2951,7 +2951,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2346 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2346 msgid "" "Like spies, online fraudsters are totally dependent on companies " "over-collecting and over-retaining our data. Spy agencies sometimes pay " @@ -2962,7 +2962,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2354 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2354 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, " @@ -2972,12 +2972,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2362 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2362 msgid "Critical tech exceptionalism is still tech exceptionalism" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2365 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2365 msgid "" "Big Tech has long practiced technology exceptionalism: the idea that it " "should not be subject to the mundane laws and norms of " @@ -2987,14 +2987,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2371 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2371 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:2375 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2375 msgid "" "Big Tech is not a <quote>rogue capitalism</quote> that cannot be cured " "through the traditional anti-monopoly remedies of trustbusting (forcing " @@ -3007,7 +3007,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2385 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2385 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 " @@ -3015,7 +3015,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2391 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2391 msgid "" "For generations, the advertising industry has been steadily improving its " "ability to sell advertising services to businesses while only making " @@ -3027,7 +3027,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2401 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2401 msgid "" "The tech industry has made enormous improvements in the science of " "convincing businesses that they’re good at advertising while their actual " @@ -3041,7 +3041,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2413 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2413 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 " @@ -3057,7 +3057,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2427 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2427 msgid "" "The claims of Big Tech’s mind-control system are full of tells that the " "enterprise is a con. For example, <ulink " @@ -3071,7 +3071,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2437 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2437 msgid "" "Big Tech’s promotional materials also claim that their algorithms can " "accurately perform <quote>sentiment analysis</quote> or detect peoples’ " @@ -3087,7 +3087,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2450 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2450 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 " @@ -3101,7 +3101,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2462 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2462 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 " @@ -3114,7 +3114,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2472 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2472 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 " @@ -3131,7 +3131,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2487 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2487 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 " @@ -3140,7 +3140,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2493 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2493 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 " @@ -3149,7 +3149,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2500 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2500 msgid "" "Big Tech collects our data for many reasons, including the diminishing " "returns on existing stores of data. But many tech companies also collect " @@ -3161,7 +3161,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2510 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2510 msgid "" "Data mined for predictive systems doesn’t necessarily produce these " "dividends. Think of Netflix: The predictive value of the data mined from a " @@ -3174,7 +3174,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2521 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2521 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 " @@ -3186,7 +3186,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2530 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2530 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 " @@ -3202,14 +3202,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2544 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2544 msgid "" "How monopolies, not mind control, drive surveillance capitalism: The " "Snapchat story" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2547 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2547 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 " @@ -3221,7 +3221,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2557 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2557 msgid "" "Despite frequent promises that it would never collect or analyze its users’ " "data, Facebook periodically created initiatives that did just that, like the " @@ -3235,7 +3235,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2569 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2569 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 " @@ -3246,7 +3246,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2577 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2577 msgid "" "All the while, Facebook was prodigiously acquiring companies, including a " "company called Onavo. Nominally, Onavo made a battery-monitoring mobile " @@ -3256,7 +3256,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2585 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2585 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 " @@ -3270,7 +3270,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2597 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2597 msgid "" "The story of how Facebook crushed Snapchat reveals the relationship between " "monopoly and surveillance capitalism. Facebook combined surveillance with " @@ -3284,12 +3284,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2609 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2609 msgid "A monopoly over your friends" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2611 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2611 msgid "" "A decentralization movement has tried to erode the dominance of Facebook and " "other Big Tech companies by fielding <quote>indieweb</quote> alternatives — " @@ -3298,7 +3298,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2618 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2618 msgid "" "Fundamentally, each of these services is hamstrung by the same problem: " "Every potential user for a Facebook or Twitter alternative has to convince " @@ -3310,7 +3310,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2628 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2628 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 " @@ -3318,7 +3318,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2633 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2633 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 " @@ -3327,12 +3327,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2640 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2640 msgid "The hard problem of our species is coordination." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2644 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2644 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, " @@ -3344,7 +3344,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2653 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2653 msgid "" "Interoperability is often a source of innovation and consumer benefit: Apple " "made the first commercially successful PC, but millions of independent " @@ -3361,7 +3361,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2668 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2668 msgid "" "<quote>Interoperability</quote> is often used interchangeably with " "<quote>standardization,</quote> which is the process when manufacturers and " @@ -3372,7 +3372,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2676 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2676 msgid "" "But interoperability doesn’t require standardization — indeed, " "standardization often proceeds from the chaos of ad hoc interoperability " @@ -3386,7 +3386,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2687 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2687 msgid "" "Beyond neutral interoperability, there is <quote>adversarial " "interoperability.</quote> That’s when a manufacturer makes a product that " @@ -3396,7 +3396,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2695 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2695 msgid "" "Probably the most familiar form of adversarial interoperability is " "third-party printer ink. Printer manufacturers claim that they sell printers " @@ -3408,7 +3408,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2704 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2704 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 " @@ -3423,7 +3423,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2717 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2717 msgid "" "Adversarial interoperability has played an outsized role in the history of " "the tech industry: from the founding of the <quote>alt.*</quote> Usenet " @@ -3439,7 +3439,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2731 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2731 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 " @@ -3456,7 +3456,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2746 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2746 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 " @@ -3468,7 +3468,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2756 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2756 msgid "" "In the absence of a competitive market, lawmakers have resorted to assigning " "expensive, state-like duties to Big Tech firms, such as automatically " @@ -3478,7 +3478,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2764 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2764 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 " @@ -3486,7 +3486,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2769 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2769 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 " @@ -3500,7 +3500,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2781 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2781 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 " @@ -3513,7 +3513,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2791 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2791 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 " @@ -3528,12 +3528,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2803 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2803 msgid "Fake news is an epistemological crisis" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2805 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2805 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 " @@ -3542,7 +3542,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2812 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2812 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 " @@ -3551,7 +3551,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2818 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2818 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 " @@ -3561,7 +3561,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2826 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2826 msgid "" "That means that whenever a regulator asks a question with an obvious, " "empirical answer (<quote>Are humans causing climate change?</quote> or " @@ -3573,7 +3573,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2835 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2835 msgid "" "Rich people have always played an outsized role in politics and more so " "since the Supreme Court’s <emphasis>Citizens United</emphasis> decision " @@ -3584,7 +3584,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2844 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2844 msgid "" "But the policy distortions of rich individuals pale in comparison to the " "policy distortions that concentrated industries are capable of. The " @@ -3595,7 +3595,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2853 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2853 msgid "" "Concentrated industries also find it easier to collaborate on policy " "objectives than competitive ones. When all the top execs from your industry " @@ -3605,7 +3605,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2860 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2860 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 " @@ -3619,7 +3619,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2872 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2872 msgid "" "Highly concentrated industries also present a regulatory conundrum. When an " "industry is dominated by just four or five companies, the only people who " @@ -3632,7 +3632,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2883 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2883 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 " @@ -3641,7 +3641,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2889 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2889 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 " @@ -3657,7 +3657,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2903 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2903 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 " @@ -3675,7 +3675,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2920 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2920 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 " @@ -3686,12 +3686,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2929 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2929 msgid "Right now, it’s obviously not." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2932 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2932 msgid "" "The past 40 years of rising inequality and industry concentration, together " "with increasingly weak accountability and transparency for expert agencies, " @@ -3702,7 +3702,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2940 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2940 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 " @@ -3715,7 +3715,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2951 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2951 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 " @@ -3726,7 +3726,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2960 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2960 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 " @@ -3744,7 +3744,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2977 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2977 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 " @@ -3754,7 +3754,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2985 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2985 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 " @@ -3765,7 +3765,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2994 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:2994 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 " @@ -3775,7 +3775,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3002 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3002 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 " @@ -3783,7 +3783,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3007 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3007 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 " @@ -3791,7 +3791,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3012 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3012 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 " @@ -3805,7 +3805,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3023 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3023 msgid "" "Targeting — surveillance capitalism — makes it easier to find people who are " "undergoing this epistemological crisis, but it doesn’t create the " @@ -3813,7 +3813,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3028 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3028 msgid "" "And, conveniently enough, it’s corruption that allows surveillance " "capitalism to grow by dismantling monopoly protections, by permitting " @@ -3824,12 +3824,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3037 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3037 msgid "Tech is different" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3039 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3039 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 " @@ -3839,7 +3839,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3047 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3047 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 " @@ -3847,7 +3847,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3052 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3052 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 " @@ -3860,7 +3860,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3063 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3063 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 " @@ -3868,7 +3868,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3068 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3068 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 " @@ -3877,7 +3877,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3074 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3074 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 " @@ -3888,7 +3888,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3083 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3083 msgid "" "This means that every time someone with a special communications need " "invests in infrastructure and techniques to make the internet faster, " @@ -3900,7 +3900,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3092 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3092 msgid "" "For these reasons, every type of communication is gradually absorbed into " "the internet, and every type of device — from airplanes to pacemakers — " @@ -3908,7 +3908,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3097 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3097 msgid "" "While these considerations don’t preclude regulating networks and computers, " "they do call for gravitas and caution when doing so because changes to " @@ -3917,7 +3917,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3103 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3103 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 " @@ -3927,12 +3927,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3111 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3111 msgid "Ownership of facts" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3113 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3113 msgid "" "Big Tech has a funny relationship with information. When you’re generating " "information — anything from the location data streaming off your mobile " @@ -3941,7 +3941,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3120 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3120 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 " @@ -3951,7 +3951,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3127 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3127 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 " @@ -3961,7 +3961,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3134 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3134 msgid "" "Information rarely has such a clear title. Take phone numbers: There’s " "clearly something going wrong when Facebook slurps up millions of users’ " @@ -3970,7 +3970,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3141 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3141 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 " @@ -3982,7 +3982,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3150 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3150 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 " @@ -3997,7 +3997,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3163 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3163 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 " @@ -4009,7 +4009,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3172 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3172 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 " @@ -4021,7 +4021,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3181 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3181 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 " @@ -4034,7 +4034,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3192 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3192 msgid "" "Meanwhile, establishing property rights over information will create " "insurmountable barriers to independent data processing. Imagine that we " @@ -4050,7 +4050,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3207 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3207 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 " @@ -4066,7 +4066,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3221 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3221 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 " @@ -4078,12 +4078,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3231 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3231 msgid "Persuasion works… slowly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3233 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3233 msgid "" "The platforms may oversell their ability to persuade people, but obviously, " "persuasion works sometimes. Whether it’s the private realm that LGBTQ people " @@ -4094,7 +4094,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3242 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3242 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 " @@ -4107,7 +4107,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3253 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3253 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 " @@ -4119,7 +4119,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3263 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3263 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 " @@ -4131,7 +4131,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3272 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3272 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 " @@ -4151,19 +4151,19 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3291 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3291 msgid "Paying won’t help" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3293 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3293 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:3297 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3297 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 " @@ -4177,7 +4177,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3309 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3309 msgid "" "But the degradation of news products long precedes the advent of " "ad-supported online news. Long before newspapers were online, lax antitrust " @@ -4192,7 +4192,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3322 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3322 msgid "" "Then, as news companies <emphasis>did</emphasis> come online, the ad " "revenues they commanded dropped even as the number of internet users (and " @@ -4205,7 +4205,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3332 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3332 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 " @@ -4225,7 +4225,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3351 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3351 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 " @@ -4239,7 +4239,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3362 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3362 msgid "" "Perhaps paying would fix this, the reasoning goes. If platforms could be " "economically viable even if you stopped clicking on them once your " @@ -4248,7 +4248,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3369 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3369 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 " @@ -4256,7 +4256,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3374 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3374 msgid "" "Platforms are world-spanning and all-encompassing because they are " "monopolies, and they are monopolies because we have gutted our most " @@ -4269,7 +4269,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3385 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3385 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 " @@ -4277,7 +4277,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3390 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3390 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 " @@ -4293,7 +4293,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3404 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3404 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 " @@ -4308,7 +4308,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3417 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3417 msgid "" "Advocates for markets laud their ability to aggregate the diffused knowledge " "of buyers and sellers across a whole society through demand signals, price " @@ -4322,7 +4322,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3429 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3429 msgid "" "The profitability of any business is constrained by the possibility that its " "customers will take their business elsewhere. Both surveillance and lock-in " @@ -4334,7 +4334,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3439 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3439 msgid "" "Ultimately, surveillance and lock-in are both simply business strategies " "that monopolists can choose. Surveillance companies like Google are " @@ -4350,12 +4350,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3454 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3454 msgid "An <quote>ecology</quote> moment for trustbusting" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3456 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3456 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 " @@ -4365,7 +4365,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3463 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3463 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 " @@ -4376,7 +4376,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3471 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3471 msgid "" "But trustbusters once strode the nation, brandishing law books, terrorizing " "robber barons, and shattering the illusion of monopolies’ all-powerful grip " @@ -4386,12 +4386,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3479 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3479 msgid "Could we find that political will again?" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3482 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3482 msgid "" "Copyright scholar James Boyle has described how the term " "<quote>ecology</quote> marked a turning point in environmental " @@ -4402,7 +4402,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3490 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3490 msgid "" "But the term <quote>ecology</quote> welded these disparate causes together " "into a single movement, and the members of this movement found solidarity " @@ -4415,7 +4415,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3501 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3501 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 " @@ -4424,7 +4424,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3507 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3507 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 " @@ -4436,7 +4436,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3517 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3517 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 " @@ -4445,7 +4445,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3523 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3523 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 " @@ -4453,7 +4453,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3528 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3528 msgid "" "Big Tech’s concentration currently means that their inaction on harassment, " "for example, leaves users with an impossible choice: absent themselves from " @@ -4467,7 +4467,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3540 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3540 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 " @@ -4478,7 +4478,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3549 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3549 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 " @@ -4489,7 +4489,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3558 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3558 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 " @@ -4504,7 +4504,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3570 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3570 msgid "" "Allowing the platforms to grow to their present size has given them a " "dominance that is nearly insurmountable — deputizing them with public duties " @@ -4516,7 +4516,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3580 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3580 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 " @@ -4527,12 +4527,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3588 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3588 msgid "Make Big Tech small again" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3590 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3590 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 " @@ -4543,14 +4543,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3600 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3600 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:3605 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3605 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, " @@ -4560,7 +4560,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3613 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3613 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 " @@ -4572,7 +4572,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3622 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3622 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 " @@ -4588,7 +4588,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3636 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3636 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 " @@ -4599,7 +4599,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3645 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3645 msgid "" "In an important sense, it doesn’t matter which industry the breakups begin " "in. Once they start, shareholders in <emphasis>every</emphasis> industry " @@ -4618,12 +4618,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3662 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3662 msgid "20 GOTO 10" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3664 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3664 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 " @@ -4633,7 +4633,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3671 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3671 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 " @@ -4642,14 +4642,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3678 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3678 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:3683 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3683 msgid "" "Getting people to care about monopolies will take technological " "interventions that help them to see what a world free from Big Tech might " @@ -4664,7 +4664,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3695 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3695 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 " @@ -4680,7 +4680,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3709 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3709 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 " @@ -4692,7 +4692,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3718 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3718 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 " @@ -4705,7 +4705,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3729 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3729 msgid "" "Surveillance doesn’t make capitalism rogue. Capitalism’s unchecked rule " "begets surveillance. Surveillance isn’t bad because it lets people " @@ -4717,19 +4717,19 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3738 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3738 msgid "Up and through" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3740 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3740 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:3745 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3745 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 " @@ -4741,7 +4741,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3755 +#: how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.xml:3755 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 "