From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 20:35:58 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Updated POT file. X-Git-Tag: nb-printed-2021-01-24~456 X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-destroy-surveillance.git/commitdiff_plain/e251a98c1513c2a4e9969c78dffdf7134cb2aad0 Updated POT file. --- diff --git a/po/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.pot b/po/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.pot index d75e8e7..f44651a 100644 --- a/po/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.pot +++ b/po/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.pot @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism n/a\n" -"POT-Creation-Date: 2020-09-07 09:40+0200\n" +"POT-Creation-Date: 2020-09-07 22:34+0200\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n" @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ msgid "en" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: -#: complete-book.xml:6 complete-book.xml:60 +#: complete-book.xml:6 complete-book.xml:65 msgid "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" msgstr "" @@ -46,21 +46,22 @@ msgstr "" #: complete-book.xml:15 msgid "" "<publisher> <publishername>Petter Reinholdtsen</publishername> <placeholder " -"type=\"address\" id=\"0\"/> </publisher>" +"type=\"address\" id=\"0\"/> </publisher> <copyright> <year>2020</year> " +"<holder>Petter Reinholdtsen</holder> </copyright>" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:22 +#: complete-book.xml:27 msgid "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:25 +#: complete-book.xml:30 msgid "Published by Petter Reinholdtsen." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para><inlinemediaobject> -#: complete-book.xml:29 +#: complete-book.xml:34 msgid "" "<imageobject> <imagedata fileref=\"images/cc.png\" contentdepth=\"3em\" " "width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"/> </imageobject> <imageobject> <imagedata " @@ -69,17 +70,17 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para><inlinemediaobject><textobject><phrase> -#: complete-book.xml:36 +#: complete-book.xml:41 msgid "Creative Commons, Some rights reserved" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:28 +#: complete-book.xml:33 msgid "<placeholder type=\"inlinemediaobject\" id=\"0\"/>" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:42 +#: complete-book.xml:47 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 " @@ -88,27 +89,27 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:49 +#: complete-book.xml:54 msgid "ISBN 978-82-93828-05-1 (hard cover)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:52 +#: complete-book.xml:57 msgid "ISBN 978-82-93828-06-8 (paperback)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><bookinfo><legalnotice><para> -#: complete-book.xml:55 +#: complete-book.xml:60 msgid "ISBN 978-82-93828-07-5 (ePub)" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:62 +#: complete-book.xml:67 msgid "The net of a thousand lies" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:64 +#: complete-book.xml:69 msgid "" "The most surprising thing about the rebirth of flat Earthers in the 21st " "century is just how widespread the evidence against them is. You can " @@ -118,7 +119,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:72 +#: complete-book.xml:77 msgid "" "But today, when elementary schools routinely dangle GoPro cameras from " "balloons and loft them high enough to photograph the Earth’s curve — to say " @@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:79 +#: complete-book.xml:84 msgid "" "Likewise for white nationalism and eugenics: In an age where you can become " "a computational genomics datapoint by swabbing your cheek and mailing it to " @@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:85 +#: complete-book.xml:90 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 " @@ -145,7 +146,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:91 +#: complete-book.xml:96 msgid "" "When an obscure idea gains currency, there are only two things that can " "explain its ascendance: Either the person expressing that idea has gotten a " @@ -160,7 +161,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:104 +#: complete-book.xml:109 msgid "" "The arguments for ridiculous beliefs in odious conspiracies like " "anti-vaccination, climate denial, a flat Earth, and eugenics are no better " @@ -170,7 +171,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:111 +#: complete-book.xml:116 msgid "" "Anti-vax has been around since the first vaccines, but the early " "anti-vaxxers were pitching people who were less equipped to understand even " @@ -181,14 +182,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:120 +#: complete-book.xml:125 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:124 +#: complete-book.xml:129 msgid "" "Some people think so. Today, there is a widespread belief that machine " "learning and commercial surveillance can turn even the most fumble-tongued " @@ -206,7 +207,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:140 +#: complete-book.xml:145 msgid "" "After all, in a world where sprawling and incoherent conspiracy theories " "like Pizzagate and its successor, QAnon, have widespread followings, " @@ -214,7 +215,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:145 +#: complete-book.xml:150 msgid "" "But what if there’s another explanation? What if it’s the material " "circumstances, and not the arguments, that are making the difference for " @@ -227,7 +228,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:155 +#: complete-book.xml:160 msgid "" "If it’s trauma and not contagion — material conditions and not ideology — " "that is making the difference today and enabling a rise of repulsive " @@ -238,7 +239,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:163 +#: complete-book.xml:168 msgid "" "Belief in conspiracy is a raging fire that has done real damage and poses " "real danger to our planet and species, from epidemics <ulink " @@ -252,7 +253,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:175 +#: complete-book.xml:180 msgid "" "But firefighting is reactive. We need fire " "<emphasis>prevention</emphasis>. We need to strike at the traumatic material " @@ -261,7 +262,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:181 +#: complete-book.xml:186 msgid "" "There’s no shortage of proposals to address this. From the EU’s <ulink " "url=\"https://edri.org/tag/terreg/\">Terrorist Content Regulation</ulink>, " @@ -275,7 +276,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:192 +#: complete-book.xml:197 msgid "" "There’s a critical piece missing from the debate, though. All these " "solutions assume that tech companies are a fixture, that their dominance " @@ -287,7 +288,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:202 +#: complete-book.xml:207 msgid "" "Figuring out what we want our tech to look like is crucial if we’re going to " "get out of this mess. Today, we’re at a crossroads where we’re trying to " @@ -297,19 +298,19 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:210 +#: complete-book.xml:215 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:214 +#: complete-book.xml:219 msgid "Digital rights activism, a quarter-century on" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:216 +#: complete-book.xml:221 msgid "" "Digital rights activism is more than 30 years old now. The Electronic " "Frontier Foundation turned 30 this year; the Free Software Foundation " @@ -332,7 +333,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:237 +#: complete-book.xml:242 msgid "" "The latest version of this critique comes in the form of <quote>surveillance " "capitalism,</quote> a term coined by business professor Shoshana Zuboff in " @@ -356,7 +357,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:258 +#: complete-book.xml:263 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 " @@ -364,12 +365,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:264 +#: complete-book.xml:269 msgid "Tech exceptionalism, then and now" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:266 +#: complete-book.xml:271 msgid "" "Early critics of the digital rights movement — perhaps best represented by " "campaigning organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free " @@ -386,7 +387,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:281 +#: complete-book.xml:286 msgid "" "In the decades since, accusations of <quote>tech exceptionalism</quote> have " "only sharpened as tech’s role in everyday life has expanded: Now that tech " @@ -397,7 +398,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:289 +#: complete-book.xml:294 msgid "" "From my perspective, the digital rights movement has remained stationary " "while the rest of the world has moved. From the earliest days, the " @@ -410,7 +411,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:300 +#: complete-book.xml:305 msgid "" "The <quote>surveillance capitalism</quote> critique recasts the digital " "rights movement in a new light again: not as alarmists who overestimate the " @@ -421,17 +422,17 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:308 +#: complete-book.xml:313 msgid "But tech exceptionalism is a sin no matter who practices it." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:311 +#: complete-book.xml:316 msgid "Don’t believe the hype" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:313 +#: complete-book.xml:318 msgid "" "You’ve probably heard that <quote>if you’re not paying for the product, " "you’re the product.</quote> As we’ll see below, that’s true, if incomplete. " @@ -443,7 +444,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:323 +#: complete-book.xml:328 msgid "" "The fear of surveillance capitalism starts from the (correct) presumption " "that everything Big Tech says about itself is probably a lie. But the " @@ -457,7 +458,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:335 +#: complete-book.xml:340 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalism assumes that because advertisers buy a lot of what " "Big Tech is selling, Big Tech must be selling something real. But Big Tech’s " @@ -467,7 +468,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:342 +#: complete-book.xml:347 msgid "" "Being watched changes your behavior, and not for the better. It creates " "risks for our social progress. Zuboff’s book features beautifully wrought " @@ -482,12 +483,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:356 +#: complete-book.xml:361 msgid "What is persuasion?" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:358 +#: complete-book.xml:363 msgid "" "To understand why you shouldn’t worry about mind-control rays — but why you " "<emphasis>should</emphasis> worry about surveillance " @@ -496,7 +497,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:364 +#: complete-book.xml:369 msgid "" "Google, Facebook, and other surveillance capitalists promise their customers " "(the advertisers) that if they use machine-learning tools trained on " @@ -507,14 +508,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:373 +#: complete-book.xml:378 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:378 +#: complete-book.xml:383 msgid "" "But there’s little evidence that this is happening. Instead, the predictions " "that surveillance capitalism delivers to its customers are much less " @@ -524,12 +525,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:385 +#: complete-book.xml:390 msgid "1. Segmenting" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:387 +#: complete-book.xml:392 msgid "" "If you’re selling diapers, you have better luck if you pitch them to people " "in maternity wards. Not everyone who enters or leaves a maternity ward just " @@ -541,7 +542,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:398 +#: complete-book.xml:403 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalism is segmenting times a billion. Diaper vendors can go " "way beyond people in maternity wards (though they can do that, too, with " @@ -556,22 +557,22 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:412 +#: complete-book.xml:417 msgid "This is seriously creepy." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:415 +#: complete-book.xml:420 msgid "But it’s not mind control." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:418 +#: complete-book.xml:423 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:421 +#: complete-book.xml:426 msgid "" "Think of how surveillance capitalism works in politics. Surveillance " "capitalist companies sell political operatives the power to locate people " @@ -584,7 +585,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:432 +#: complete-book.xml:437 msgid "" "But this is an inexact and thus wasteful practice. The union organizer can’t " "know which worker to approach on the way out of the factory gates and may " @@ -596,7 +597,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:442 +#: complete-book.xml:447 msgid "" "Because targeting improves the yields on political pitches, it can " "accelerate the pace of political upheaval by making it possible for everyone " @@ -609,7 +610,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:453 +#: complete-book.xml:458 msgid "" "It’s important to differentiate this kind of political organizing from " "influence campaigns; finding people who secretly agree with you isn’t the " @@ -621,7 +622,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:462 +#: complete-book.xml:467 msgid "" "But the personal accounts of those who have come out tell a different story " "where people who long harbored a secret about their gender were emboldened " @@ -632,12 +633,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:471 +#: complete-book.xml:476 msgid "2. Deception" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:473 +#: complete-book.xml:478 msgid "" "Lies and fraud are pernicious, and surveillance capitalism supercharges them " "through targeting. If you want to sell a fraudulent payday loan or subprime " @@ -651,7 +652,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:485 +#: complete-book.xml:490 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalism also abets fraud by making it easy to locate other " "people who have been similarly deceived, forming a community of people who " @@ -663,7 +664,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:495 +#: complete-book.xml:500 msgid "" "Sometimes, online deception involves replacing someone’s correct beliefs " "with incorrect ones, as it does in the anti-vaccination movement, whose " @@ -673,7 +674,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:502 +#: complete-book.xml:507 msgid "" "But it’s much more common for fraud to succeed when it doesn’t have to " "displace a true belief. When my daughter contracted head lice at daycare, " @@ -686,7 +687,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:513 +#: complete-book.xml:518 msgid "" "This is pernicious and difficult — and it’s also the kind of thing the " "internet can help guard against by making true information available, " @@ -704,12 +705,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:530 +#: complete-book.xml:535 msgid "3. Domination" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:532 +#: complete-book.xml:537 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalism is the result of monopoly. Monopoly is the cause, " "and surveillance capitalism and its negative outcomes are the effects of " @@ -720,7 +721,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:541 +#: complete-book.xml:546 msgid "" "One example of how monopolism aids in persuasion is through dominance: " "Google makes editorial decisions about its algorithms that determine the " @@ -735,7 +736,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:554 +#: complete-book.xml:559 msgid "" "Google’s dominance over search — more than 86% of web searches are performed " "through Google — means that the way it orders its search results has an " @@ -749,7 +750,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:566 +#: complete-book.xml:571 msgid "" "Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism a <quote>rogue capitalism</quote> whose " "data-hoarding and machine-learning techniques rob us of our free will. But " @@ -765,12 +766,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><title> -#: complete-book.xml:581 +#: complete-book.xml:586 msgid "4. Bypassing our rational faculties" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:583 +#: complete-book.xml:588 msgid "" "<emphasis>This</emphasis> is the good stuff: using machine learning, " "<quote>dark patterns,</quote> engagement hacking, and other techniques to " @@ -779,7 +780,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:589 +#: complete-book.xml:594 msgid "" "Some of these techniques have proven devastatingly effective (if only in the " "short term). The use of countdown timers on a purchase completion page can " @@ -794,7 +795,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:602 +#: complete-book.xml:607 msgid "" "Games are extraordinarily good at this. <quote>Free to play</quote> games " "manipulate us through many techniques, such as presenting players with a " @@ -807,7 +808,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:613 +#: complete-book.xml:618 msgid "" "Companies have risen and fallen on these techniques, and the " "<quote>fallen</quote> part is worth paying attention to. In general, living " @@ -819,7 +820,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:623 +#: complete-book.xml:628 msgid "" "That’s why behavioral conditioning uses <quote>intermittent reinforcement " "schedules.</quote> Instead of giving you a steady drip of encouragement or " @@ -829,7 +830,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:631 +#: complete-book.xml:636 msgid "" "Intermittent reinforcement is a powerful behavioral tool, but it also " "represents a collective action problem for surveillance capitalism. The " @@ -845,7 +846,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:646 +#: complete-book.xml:651 msgid "" "From the surveillance capitalist’s point of view, our adaptive capacity is " "like a harmful bacterium that deprives it of its food source — our attention " @@ -862,7 +863,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:661 +#: complete-book.xml:666 msgid "" "Not everyone, of course. Some people never adapt to stimulus, just as some " "people never stop hearing the hum of the refrigerator. This is why most " @@ -873,7 +874,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:669 +#: complete-book.xml:674 msgid "" "But surveillance capitalism’s margins on behavioral modification " "suck. Tripling the rate at which someone buys a widget sounds great <ulink " @@ -884,7 +885,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:679 +#: complete-book.xml:684 msgid "" "Slot machines’ high returns mean that they can be profitable just by " "draining the fortunes of the small rump of people who are pathologically " @@ -903,7 +904,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><sect2><para> -#: complete-book.xml:697 +#: complete-book.xml:702 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 " @@ -911,12 +912,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:704 +#: complete-book.xml:709 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:707 +#: complete-book.xml:712 msgid "" "This adaptation problem offers an explanation for one of surveillance " "capitalism’s most alarming traits: its relentless hunger for data and its " @@ -926,7 +927,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:714 +#: complete-book.xml:719 msgid "" "Zuboff observes this phenomenon and concludes that data must be very " "valuable if surveillance capitalism is so hungry for it. (In her words: " @@ -943,14 +944,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:729 +#: complete-book.xml:734 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:734 +#: complete-book.xml:739 msgid "" "If someone wants to recruit you to buy a refrigerator or join a pogrom, they " "might use profiling and targeting to send messages to people they judge to " @@ -966,7 +967,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:748 +#: complete-book.xml:753 msgid "" "Each phase of this process benefits from surveillance: The more data they " "have, the more precisely they can profile you and target you with specific " @@ -976,7 +977,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:755 +#: complete-book.xml:760 msgid "" "Also, the more data they have, the better they can craft deceptive messages " "— if I know that you’re into genealogy, I might not try to feed you " @@ -986,7 +987,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:762 +#: complete-book.xml:767 msgid "" "Facebook also helps you locate people who have the same odious or antisocial " "views as you. It makes it possible to find other people who want to carry " @@ -998,7 +999,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:772 +#: complete-book.xml:777 msgid "" "There is one way in which targeted advertising uniquely benefits those " "advocating for socially unacceptable causes: It is invisible. Racism is " @@ -1014,7 +1015,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:787 +#: complete-book.xml:792 msgid "" "But even if you wanted to advertise your Nazi movement on a billboard or " "prime-time TV or the sports section, you would struggle to find anyone " @@ -1024,7 +1025,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:795 +#: complete-book.xml:800 msgid "" "Targeted ads solve this problem: On the internet, every ad unit can be " "different for every person, meaning that you can buy ads that are only shown " @@ -1037,7 +1038,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:806 +#: complete-book.xml:811 msgid "" "Online ads are placed by algorithms that broker between a diverse ecosystem " "of self-serve ad platforms that anyone can buy an ad through, so the Nazi ad " @@ -1052,7 +1053,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:820 +#: complete-book.xml:825 msgid "" "These layers of indirection between advertisers and publishers serve as " "moral buffers: Today’s moral consensus is largely that publishers shouldn’t " @@ -1062,7 +1063,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:828 +#: complete-book.xml:833 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 " @@ -1070,7 +1071,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:833 +#: complete-book.xml:838 msgid "" "More importantly, if you can dominate the information space while also " "gathering data, then you make other deceptive tactics stronger because it’s " @@ -1081,7 +1082,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:842 +#: complete-book.xml:847 msgid "" "If you’re a Nazi who wants to ensure that your prospects primarily see " "deceptive, confirming information when they search for more, you can improve " @@ -1093,7 +1094,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:851 +#: complete-book.xml:856 msgid "" "Surveillance capitalists are like stage mentalists who claim that their " "extraordinary insights into human behavior let them guess the word that you " @@ -1102,7 +1103,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:858 +#: complete-book.xml:863 msgid "" "Or perhaps they’re more like pick-up artists, the misogynistic cult that " "promises to help awkward men have sex with women by teaching them " @@ -1113,7 +1114,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:866 +#: complete-book.xml:871 msgid "" "Some pick-up artists eventually manage to convince women to go home with " "them, but it’s not because these men have figured out how to bypass women’s " @@ -1126,7 +1127,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:877 +#: complete-book.xml:882 msgid "" "Pick-up artists <emphasis>believe</emphasis> they have figured out a secret " "back door that bypasses women’s critical faculties, but they haven’t. Many " @@ -1137,7 +1138,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:886 +#: complete-book.xml:891 msgid "" "Pick-up artists are proof that people can believe they have developed a " "system of mind control <emphasis>even when it doesn’t " @@ -1157,7 +1158,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:904 +#: complete-book.xml:909 msgid "" "Department store pioneer John Wanamaker is said to have lamented, " "<quote>Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I " @@ -1169,12 +1170,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:914 +#: complete-book.xml:919 msgid "What is Facebook?" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:916 +#: complete-book.xml:921 msgid "" "Facebook is heralded as the origin of all of our modern plagues, and it’s " "not hard to see why. Some tech companies want to lock their users in but " @@ -1188,7 +1189,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:928 +#: complete-book.xml:933 msgid "" "Facebook’s surveillance regime is really without parallel in the Western " "world. Though Facebook tries to prevent itself from being visible on the " @@ -1203,14 +1204,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:942 +#: complete-book.xml:947 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:947 +#: complete-book.xml:952 msgid "" "Facebook offers similar tools to app developers, so the apps — games, fart " "machines, business review services, apps for keeping abreast of your kid’s " @@ -1224,7 +1225,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:958 +#: complete-book.xml:963 msgid "" "Though it’s easy to integrate the web with Facebook — linking to news " "stories and such — Facebook products are generally not available to be " @@ -1238,7 +1239,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:970 +#: complete-book.xml:975 msgid "" "And Facebook is incredibly popular, with 2.3 billion claimed users (though " "many believe this figure to be inflated). Facebook has been used to organize " @@ -1251,14 +1252,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:981 +#: complete-book.xml:986 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:986 +#: complete-book.xml:991 msgid "" "Because it has a lot of users and a lot of data about those users, Facebook " "is a very efficient tool for locating people with hard-to-find traits, the " @@ -1275,7 +1276,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1001 +#: complete-book.xml:1006 msgid "" "Facebook makes finding people shopping for refrigerators a " "<emphasis>lot</emphasis> easier. It can target ads to people who’ve " @@ -1292,7 +1293,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1017 +#: complete-book.xml:1022 msgid "" "Facebook also makes it a lot easier to find people who have the same rare " "disease as you, which might have been impossible in earlier eras — the " @@ -1303,7 +1304,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1025 +#: complete-book.xml:1030 msgid "" "Facebook also makes it much easier to find people who hold the same rare " "political beliefs as you. If you’ve always harbored a secret affinity for " @@ -1318,7 +1319,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1038 +#: complete-book.xml:1043 msgid "" "All of this presents a dilemma for Facebook: Targeting makes the company’s " "ads more effective than traditional ads, but it also lets advertisers see " @@ -1332,7 +1333,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1049 +#: complete-book.xml:1054 msgid "" "To make things worse, many Facebook groups spark precious little " "discussion. Your little-league soccer team, the people with the same rare " @@ -1343,7 +1344,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1057 +#: complete-book.xml:1062 msgid "" "With nothing but <quote>organic</quote> discussion, Facebook would not " "generate enough traffic to sell enough ads to make the money it needs to " @@ -1352,7 +1353,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1063 +#: complete-book.xml:1068 msgid "" "So Facebook has to gin up traffic by sidetracking its own forums: Every time " "Facebook’s algorithm injects controversial materials — inflammatory " @@ -1365,7 +1366,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1074 +#: complete-book.xml:1079 msgid "" "Facebook <emphasis>can</emphasis> modify our behavior but only in a couple " "of trivial ways. First, it can lock in all your friends and family members " @@ -1378,7 +1379,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1085 +#: complete-book.xml:1090 msgid "" "This is why Facebook’s targeting systems — both the ones it shows to " "advertisers and the ones that let users find people who share their " @@ -1390,7 +1391,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1095 +#: complete-book.xml:1100 msgid "" "The more time you spend on Facebook, the more ads it gets to show you. The " "solution to Facebook’s ads only working one in a thousand times is for the " @@ -1404,12 +1405,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1107 +#: complete-book.xml:1112 msgid "Monopoly and the right to the future tense" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1109 +#: complete-book.xml:1114 msgid "" "Zuboff and her cohort are particularly alarmed at the extent to which " "surveillance allows corporations to influence our decisions, taking away " @@ -1418,7 +1419,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1116 +#: complete-book.xml:1121 msgid "" "It’s true that advertising can tip the scales one way or another: When " "you’re thinking of buying a fridge, a timely fridge ad might end the search " @@ -1431,7 +1432,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1127 +#: complete-book.xml:1132 msgid "" "By contrast, Zuboff is rather sanguine about 40 years of lax antitrust " "practice that has allowed a handful of companies to dominate the internet, " @@ -1442,7 +1443,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1135 +#: complete-book.xml:1140 msgid "" "However, if we are to be alarmed that we might lose the right to choose for " "ourselves what our future will hold, then monopoly’s nonspeculative, " @@ -1451,7 +1452,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1141 +#: complete-book.xml:1146 msgid "" "Start with <quote>digital rights management.</quote> In 1998, Bill Clinton " "signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) into law. It’s a complex " @@ -1460,7 +1461,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1147 +#: complete-book.xml:1152 msgid "" "This is a blanket ban on tampering with systems that restrict access to " "copyrighted works. The ban is so thoroughgoing that it prohibits removing a " @@ -1471,7 +1472,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1155 +#: complete-book.xml:1160 msgid "" "For example, Section 1201’s first major application was on DVD players as a " "means of enforcing the region coding built into those devices. DVD-CCA, the " @@ -1485,7 +1486,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1167 +#: complete-book.xml:1172 msgid "" "However, watching a lawfully produced disc in a country other than the one " "where you purchased it is not copyright infringement — it’s the " @@ -1496,7 +1497,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1175 +#: complete-book.xml:1180 msgid "" "The fact that a movie studio wants to charge Indians less than Americans or " "release in Australia later than it releases in the U.K. has no bearing on " @@ -1505,7 +1506,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1182 +#: complete-book.xml:1187 msgid "" "So DVD and DVD player manufacturers would not be able to use accusations of " "abetting copyright infringement to punish manufacturers who made " @@ -1515,7 +1516,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1190 +#: complete-book.xml:1195 msgid "" "That’s where Section 1201 of the DMCA comes in: By banning tampering with an " "<quote>access control,</quote> the rule gave manufacturers and rights " @@ -1525,7 +1526,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1197 +#: complete-book.xml:1202 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 " @@ -1533,14 +1534,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><itemizedlist><listitem><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1205 +#: complete-book.xml:1210 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:1211 +#: complete-book.xml:1216 msgid "" "A device can be designed so that reconfiguring the software requires " "bypassing an <quote>access control for copyrighted works,</quote> which is a " @@ -1548,7 +1549,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><itemizedlist><listitem><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1218 +#: complete-book.xml:1223 msgid "" "Thus, companies can control their customers’ behavior after they take home " "their purchases by designing products so that all unpermitted uses require " @@ -1556,7 +1557,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1226 +#: complete-book.xml:1231 msgid "" "Section 1201 then becomes a means for manufacturers of all descriptions to " "force their customers to arrange their affairs to benefit the manufacturers’ " @@ -1564,7 +1565,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1231 +#: complete-book.xml:1236 msgid "" "This manifests in many ways: from a new generation of inkjet printers that " "use countermeasures to prevent third-party ink that cannot be bypassed " @@ -1575,7 +1576,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1240 +#: complete-book.xml:1245 msgid "" "Closer to home, Apple’s iPhones use these measures to prevent both " "third-party service and third-party software installation. This allows Apple " @@ -1589,7 +1590,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1253 +#: complete-book.xml:1258 msgid "" "Apple’s use of copyright locks also allows it to establish a monopoly over " "how its customers acquire software for their mobile devices. The App Store’s " @@ -1601,7 +1602,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1263 +#: complete-book.xml:1268 msgid "" "Crucially, Apple’s use of copyright locks gives it the power to make " "editorial decisions about which apps you may and may not install on your own " @@ -1617,7 +1618,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1276 +#: complete-book.xml:1281 msgid "" "Apple often justifies monopoly power over software installation in the name " "of security, arguing that its vetting of apps for its store means that it " @@ -1633,7 +1634,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1290 +#: complete-book.xml:1295 msgid "" "Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism a <quote>rogue capitalism.</quote> " "Theoreticians of capitalism claim that its virtue is that it <ulink " @@ -1647,7 +1648,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1301 +#: complete-book.xml:1306 msgid "" "If our concern is that markets cease to function when consumers can no " "longer make choices, then copyright locks should concern us at " @@ -1659,12 +1660,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1310 +#: complete-book.xml:1315 msgid "Search order and the right to the future tense" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1312 +#: complete-book.xml:1317 msgid "" "Markets are posed as a kind of magic: By discovering otherwise hidden " "information conveyed by the free choices of consumers, those consumers’ " @@ -1678,7 +1679,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1324 +#: complete-book.xml:1329 msgid "" "This ballot rigging is made more pernicious by the existence of monopolies " "over search order. Google’s search market share is about 90%. When Google’s " @@ -1692,7 +1693,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1336 +#: complete-book.xml:1341 msgid "" "Google’s algorithm is often tricked into serving disinformation as a " "prominent search result. But in these cases, Google isn’t persuading people " @@ -1701,7 +1702,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1342 +#: complete-book.xml:1347 msgid "" "This is true whether the search is for <quote>Are vaccines " "dangerous?</quote> or <quote>best restaurants near me.</quote> Most users " @@ -1715,7 +1716,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1353 +#: complete-book.xml:1358 msgid "" "Many of the questions we ask search engines have no empirically correct " "answers: <quote>Where should I eat dinner?</quote> is not an objective " @@ -1729,7 +1730,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1364 +#: complete-book.xml:1369 msgid "" "Google’s search dominance isn’t a matter of pure merit: The company has " "leveraged many tactics that would have been prohibited under classical, " @@ -1746,7 +1747,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1380 +#: complete-book.xml:1385 msgid "" "If we’re worried about giant companies subverting markets by stripping " "consumers of their ability to make free choices, then vigorous antitrust " @@ -1758,7 +1759,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1390 +#: complete-book.xml:1395 msgid "" "This goes for many other companies. Amazon, a classic surveillance " "capitalist, is obviously the dominant tool for searching Amazon — though " @@ -1775,7 +1776,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1405 +#: complete-book.xml:1410 msgid "" "Not every monopolist is a surveillance capitalist, but that doesn’t mean " "they’re not able to shape consumer choices in wide-ranging ways. Zuboff " @@ -1791,7 +1792,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1420 +#: complete-book.xml:1425 msgid "" "Because of its use of copyright locks, Apple’s mobile customers are not " "legally allowed to switch to a rival retailer for its apps if they want to " @@ -1805,12 +1806,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1432 +#: complete-book.xml:1437 msgid "Monopolists can afford sleeping pills for watchdogs" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1434 +#: complete-book.xml:1439 msgid "" "Only the most extreme market ideologues think that markets can self-regulate " "without state oversight. Markets need watchdogs — regulators, lawmakers, and " @@ -1822,7 +1823,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1444 +#: complete-book.xml:1449 msgid "" "But this kind of regulatory capture doesn’t come cheap. In competitive " "sectors, where rivals are constantly eroding one another’s margins, " @@ -1831,7 +1832,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1450 +#: complete-book.xml:1455 msgid "" "Many of the harms of surveillance capitalism are the result of weak or " "nonexistent regulation. Those regulatory vacuums spring from the power of " @@ -1840,7 +1841,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1456 +#: complete-book.xml:1461 msgid "" "Here’s an example: When firms over-collect and over-retain our data, they " "are at increased risk of suffering a breach — you can’t leak data you never " @@ -1851,14 +1852,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1465 +#: complete-book.xml:1470 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:1469 +#: complete-book.xml:1474 msgid "" "<emphasis role=\"strong\">1. They are locked in the aforementioned limbic " "arms race with our capacity to shore up our attentional defense systems to " @@ -1872,7 +1873,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1481 +#: complete-book.xml:1486 msgid "" "<emphasis role=\"strong\">2. They believe the surveillance capitalism " "story.</emphasis> Data is cheap to aggregate and store, and both proponents " @@ -1887,7 +1888,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1494 +#: complete-book.xml:1499 msgid "" "<emphasis role=\"strong\">3. The penalties for leaking data are " "negligible.</emphasis> Most countries limit these penalties to actual " @@ -1900,7 +1901,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1505 +#: complete-book.xml:1510 msgid "" "But the harms from breaches are much more extensive than these " "actual-damages rules capture. Identity thieves and fraudsters are wily and " @@ -1913,7 +1914,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1515 +#: complete-book.xml:1520 msgid "" "However, even the most ambitious privacy rules, such as the EU General Data " "Protection Regulation, fall far short of capturing the negative " @@ -1923,7 +1924,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1522 +#: complete-book.xml:1527 msgid "" "This tolerance of — or indifference to — data over-collection and " "over-retention can be ascribed in part to the sheer lobbying muscle of the " @@ -1933,7 +1934,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1530 +#: complete-book.xml:1535 msgid "" "And then there’s state surveillance, which the surveillance capitalism story " "dismisses as a relic of another era when the big worry was being jailed for " @@ -1942,7 +1943,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1536 +#: complete-book.xml:1541 msgid "" "But state surveillance and private surveillance are intimately related. As " "we saw when Apple was conscripted by the Chinese government as a vital " @@ -1953,7 +1954,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1544 +#: complete-book.xml:1549 msgid "" "Whether it’s Google being used as a location tracking tool by local law " "enforcement across the U.S. or the use of social media tracking by the " @@ -1972,7 +1973,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1562 +#: complete-book.xml:1567 msgid "" "Monopolism is key to the project of mass state surveillance. It’s true that " "smaller tech firms are apt to be less well-defended than Big Tech, whose " @@ -1984,7 +1985,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1571 +#: complete-book.xml:1576 msgid "" "A concentrated tech sector that works with authorities is a much more " "powerful ally in the project of mass state surveillance than a fragmented " @@ -2000,7 +2001,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1585 +#: complete-book.xml:1590 msgid "" "They can even make a good case for doing this: After all, when there are " "only four or five big companies in an industry, everyone qualified to " @@ -2011,14 +2012,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1594 +#: complete-book.xml:1599 msgid "" "While surveillance doesn’t cause monopolies, monopolies certainly abet " "surveillance." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1599 +#: complete-book.xml:1604 msgid "" "Industries that are competitive are fragmented — composed of companies that " "are at each other’s throats all the time and eroding one another’s margins " @@ -2029,7 +2030,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1607 +#: complete-book.xml:1612 msgid "" "Surveillance combined with machine learning is supposed to be an existential " "crisis, a species-defining moment at which our free will is just a few more " @@ -2039,12 +2040,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1615 +#: complete-book.xml:1620 msgid "But that threat grows out of monopoly." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1618 +#: complete-book.xml:1623 msgid "" "One of the consequences of tech’s regulatory capture is that it can shift " "liability for poor security decisions onto its customers and the wider " @@ -2055,7 +2056,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1626 +#: complete-book.xml:1631 msgid "" "IT is the only field in which this is practiced: No one builds a bridge or a " "hospital and keeps the composition of the steel or the equations used to " @@ -2066,7 +2067,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1635 +#: complete-book.xml:1640 msgid "" "The monopoly power that keeps any meaningful consequences for breaches at " "bay means that tech companies continue to build terrible products that are " @@ -2078,7 +2079,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1645 +#: complete-book.xml:1650 msgid "" "These bad security decisions are compounded yet again by the use of " "copyright locks to enforce business-model decisions against " @@ -2089,7 +2090,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1653 +#: complete-book.xml:1658 msgid "" "Recall also that these copyright locks are backstopped by legislation (such " "as Section 1201 of the DMCA or Article 6 of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive) " @@ -2099,7 +2100,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1661 +#: complete-book.xml:1666 msgid "" "This amounts to a manufacturer’s veto over safety warnings and " "criticism. While this is far from the legislative intent of the DMCA and its " @@ -2109,7 +2110,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1669 +#: complete-book.xml:1674 msgid "" "Copyright locks are a double whammy: They create bad security decisions that " "can’t be freely investigated or discussed. If markets are supposed to be " @@ -2122,7 +2123,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1679 +#: complete-book.xml:1684 msgid "" "And unlike mind-control rays, enforced silence over security is an " "immediate, documented problem, and it <emphasis>does</emphasis> constitute " @@ -2134,7 +2135,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1688 +#: complete-book.xml:1693 msgid "" "In software design, <quote>technology debt</quote> refers to old, baked-in " "decisions that turn out to be bad ones in hindsight. Perhaps a long-ago " @@ -2153,7 +2154,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1706 +#: complete-book.xml:1711 msgid "" "Typically, technology debt results in a technological bankruptcy: The " "product gets so brittle and unsustainable that it fails " @@ -2166,7 +2167,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1717 +#: complete-book.xml:1722 msgid "" "But the technology debt created by copyright locks isn’t individual debt; " "it’s systemic. Everyone in the world is exposed to this over-leverage, as " @@ -2179,12 +2180,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1729 +#: complete-book.xml:1734 msgid "Privacy and monopoly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1731 +#: complete-book.xml:1736 msgid "" "Many tech companies are gripped by an orthodoxy that holds that if they just " "gather enough data on enough of our activities, everything else is possible " @@ -2198,7 +2199,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1743 +#: complete-book.xml:1748 msgid "" "Surveillance tech is far from the first industry to embrace a nonsensical, " "self-serving belief that harms the rest of the world, and it is not the " @@ -2212,7 +2213,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1755 +#: complete-book.xml:1760 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 " @@ -2220,7 +2221,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1761 +#: complete-book.xml:1766 msgid "" "There’s real irony here. The belief in surveillance capitalism as a " "<quote>rogue capitalism</quote> is driven by the belief that markets " @@ -2230,7 +2231,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1768 +#: complete-book.xml:1773 msgid "" "But monopolists get to do terrible things for a long time before they pay " "the price. Think of how concentration in the finance sector allowed the " @@ -2247,7 +2248,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1783 +#: complete-book.xml:1788 msgid "" "Big Tech is able to practice surveillance not just because it is tech but " "because it is <emphasis>big</emphasis>. The reason every web publisher " @@ -2258,7 +2259,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1792 +#: complete-book.xml:1797 msgid "" "The reason the world’s governments have been slow to create meaningful " "penalties for privacy breaches is that Big Tech’s concentration produces " @@ -2268,14 +2269,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1800 +#: complete-book.xml:1805 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:1805 +#: complete-book.xml:1810 msgid "" "The reason people who are aghast at Facebook’s and Google’s and Amazon’s " "data-handling practices continue to use these services is that all their " @@ -2284,7 +2285,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1811 +#: complete-book.xml:1816 msgid "" "Competitive markets would weaken the companies’ lobbying muscle by reducing " "their profits and pitting them against each other in regulatory forums. It " @@ -2297,19 +2298,19 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1822 +#: complete-book.xml:1827 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:1826 +#: complete-book.xml:1831 msgid "Ronald Reagan, pioneer of tech monopolism" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1828 +#: complete-book.xml:1833 msgid "" "Technology exceptionalism is a sin, whether it’s practiced by technology’s " "blind proponents or by its critics. Both of these camps are prone to " @@ -2323,7 +2324,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1840 +#: complete-book.xml:1845 msgid "" "To understand how tech became so monopolistic, it’s useful to look at the " "dawn of the consumer tech industry: 1979, the year the Apple II Plus " @@ -2337,7 +2338,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1852 +#: complete-book.xml:1857 msgid "" "Antitrust’s story began nearly a century before all that with laws like the " "Sherman Act, which took aim at monopolists on the grounds that monopolies " @@ -2349,7 +2350,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1861 +#: complete-book.xml:1866 msgid "" "Then came a fabulist named Robert Bork, a former solicitor general who " "Reagan appointed to the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit " @@ -2362,7 +2363,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1871 +#: complete-book.xml:1876 msgid "" "Bork was a crank, but he was a crank with a theory that rich people really " "liked. Monopolies are a great way to make rich people richer by allowing " @@ -2373,7 +2374,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1879 +#: complete-book.xml:1884 msgid "" "Bork’s theories were especially palatable to the same power brokers who " "backed Reagan, and Reagan’s Department of Justice and other agencies began " @@ -2385,7 +2386,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1888 +#: complete-book.xml:1893 msgid "" "Little by little, Bork’s theories entered the mainstream, and their backers " "began to infiltrate the legal education field, even putting on junkets where " @@ -2397,7 +2398,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1898 +#: complete-book.xml:1903 msgid "" "The history of Bork’s antitrust theories is a really good example of the " "kind of covertly engineered shifts in public opinion that Zuboff warns us " @@ -2411,7 +2412,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1910 +#: complete-book.xml:1915 msgid "" "Today, many fear that machine learning allows surveillance capitalism to " "sell <quote>Bork-as-a-Service,</quote> at internet speeds, so that you can " @@ -2426,7 +2427,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1923 +#: complete-book.xml:1928 msgid "" "The idea that tech forms <quote>natural monopolies</quote> (monopolies that " "are the inevitable result of the realities of an industry, such as the " @@ -2441,7 +2442,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1935 +#: complete-book.xml:1940 msgid "" "Indeed, the birth of the web saw a mass-extinction event for the existing " "giant, wildly profitable proprietary technologies that had capital, network " @@ -2457,7 +2458,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1949 +#: complete-book.xml:1954 msgid "" "Yes, tech is heavily monopolized and is now closely associated with industry " "concentration, but this has more to do with a matter of timing than its " @@ -2471,7 +2472,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1961 +#: complete-book.xml:1966 msgid "" "In support of this thesis, I offer the concentration that every " "<emphasis>other</emphasis> industry has undergone over the same period. From " @@ -2488,7 +2489,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1976 +#: complete-book.xml:1981 msgid "" "Again: When you change the laws intended to prevent monopolies and then " "monopolies form in exactly the way the law was supposed to prevent, it is " @@ -2503,12 +2504,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:1988 +#: complete-book.xml:1993 msgid "Steering with the windshield wipers" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:1990 +#: complete-book.xml:1995 msgid "" "It’s been 40 years since Bork’s project to rehabilitate monopolies achieved " "liftoff, and that is a generation and a half, which is plenty of time to " @@ -2520,7 +2521,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2000 +#: complete-book.xml:2005 msgid "" "After 40 years of studiously ignoring antitrust analysis and enforcement, " "it’s not surprising that we’ve all but forgotten that antitrust exists, that " @@ -2530,7 +2531,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2008 +#: complete-book.xml:2013 msgid "" "Antitrust is a market society’s steering wheel, the control of first resort " "to keep would-be masters of the universe in their lanes. But Bork and his " @@ -2543,7 +2544,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2018 +#: complete-book.xml:2023 msgid "" "It’s like a 1960s science-fiction plot come to life: People stuck in a " "<quote>generation ship,</quote> plying its way across the stars, a ship once " @@ -2555,12 +2556,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2028 +#: complete-book.xml:2033 msgid "Surveillance still matters" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2030 +#: complete-book.xml:2035 msgid "" "None of this is to minimize the problems with surveillance. Surveillance " "matters, and Big Tech’s use of surveillance <emphasis>is</emphasis> an " @@ -2569,7 +2570,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2037 +#: complete-book.xml:2042 msgid "" "Surveillance has become <emphasis>much</emphasis> more efficient thanks to " "Big Tech. In 1989, the Stasi — the East German secret police — had the whole " @@ -2578,7 +2579,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2044 +#: complete-book.xml:2049 msgid "" "Today, we know that the NSA is spying on a significant fraction of the " "entire world’s population, and its ratio of surveillance operatives to the " @@ -2589,7 +2590,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2053 +#: complete-book.xml:2058 msgid "" "How did the ratio of surveillable citizens expand from 1:60 to 1:10,000 in " "less than 30 years? It’s thanks to Big Tech. Our devices and services gather " @@ -2611,7 +2612,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2074 +#: complete-book.xml:2079 msgid "" "Let me explain that again: If one in a million people is a terrorist, then " "there will only be about one terrorist in a random sample of one million " @@ -2621,7 +2622,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2082 +#: complete-book.xml:2087 msgid "" "In reality, the accuracy of algorithmic terrorism detection falls far short " "of the 99% mark, as does refrigerator ad targeting. The difference is that " @@ -2631,7 +2632,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2089 +#: complete-book.xml:2094 msgid "" "Mass state surveillance is only feasible because of surveillance capitalism " "and its extremely low-yield ad-targeting systems, which require a constant " @@ -2642,7 +2643,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2097 +#: complete-book.xml:2102 msgid "" "State surveillance is no mere parasite on Big Tech, sucking up its data and " "giving nothing in return. In truth, the two are symbiotes: Big Tech sucks up " @@ -2653,7 +2654,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2106 +#: complete-book.xml:2111 msgid "" "To see this at work today, look no further than Amazon’s home surveillance " "device, the Ring doorbell, and its associated app, Neighbors. Ring — a " @@ -2670,7 +2671,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2122 +#: complete-book.xml:2127 msgid "" "In mid-2019, a series of public records requests revealed that Amazon had " "struck confidential deals with more than 400 local law enforcement agencies " @@ -2684,7 +2685,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2134 +#: complete-book.xml:2139 msgid "" "Ring and law enforcement have found many ways to intertwine their " "activities. Ring strikes secret deals to acquire real-time access to 911 " @@ -2694,7 +2695,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2142 +#: complete-book.xml:2147 msgid "" "The more the cops buzz-market the surveillance capitalist Ring, the more " "surveillance capability the state gets. Cops who rely on private entities " @@ -2707,12 +2708,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2153 +#: complete-book.xml:2158 msgid "Dignity and sanctuary" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2155 +#: complete-book.xml:2160 msgid "" "But even if we could exercise democratic control over our states and force " "them to stop raiding surveillance capitalism’s reservoirs of behavioral " @@ -2720,7 +2721,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2160 +#: complete-book.xml:2165 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, " @@ -2728,7 +2729,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2165 +#: complete-book.xml:2170 msgid "" "When you are watched, something changes. Anyone who has ever raised a child " "knows this. You might look up from your book (or more realistically, from " @@ -2746,7 +2747,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2181 +#: complete-book.xml:2186 msgid "" "In the digital age, our authentic selves are inextricably tied to our " "digital lives. Your search history is a running ledger of the questions " @@ -2756,14 +2757,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2189 +#: complete-book.xml:2194 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:2193 +#: complete-book.xml:2198 msgid "" "There’s another way in which surveillance capitalism robs us of our capacity " "to be our authentic selves: by making us anxious. Surveillance capitalism " @@ -2776,7 +2777,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2204 +#: complete-book.xml:2209 msgid "" "Our devices and services are <quote>general purpose</quote> in that they can " "connect anything or anyone to anything or anyone else and that they can run " @@ -2789,7 +2790,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2214 +#: complete-book.xml:2219 msgid "" "All day and all night, our pockets buzz, shattering our concentration and " "tearing apart the fragile webs of connection we spin as we think through " @@ -2800,12 +2801,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2223 +#: complete-book.xml:2228 msgid "Afflicting the afflicted" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2225 +#: complete-book.xml:2230 msgid "" "The effects of surveillance on our ability to be our authentic selves are " "not equal for all people. Some of us are lucky enough to live in a time and " @@ -2815,7 +2816,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2232 +#: complete-book.xml:2237 msgid "" "But for many of us, this is not true. Recall that in living memory, many of " "the ways of being that we think of as socially acceptable today were once " @@ -2827,7 +2828,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2242 +#: complete-book.xml:2247 msgid "" "Today, these activities aren’t just decriminalized in much of the world, " "they’re considered normal, and the fallen prohibitions are viewed as " @@ -2835,7 +2836,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2247 +#: complete-book.xml:2252 msgid "" "How did we get from prohibition to normalization? Through private, personal " "activity: People who were secretly gay or secret pot-smokers or who secretly " @@ -2850,7 +2851,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2260 +#: complete-book.xml:2265 msgid "" "The right to choose the time and manner of these conversations was key to " "their success. It’s one thing to come out to your dad while you’re on a " @@ -2860,7 +2861,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2267 +#: complete-book.xml:2272 msgid "" "Without a private sphere, there’s a chance that none of these changes would " "have come to pass and that the people who benefited from these changes would " @@ -2869,7 +2870,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2274 +#: complete-book.xml:2279 msgid "" "The corollary is that, unless you think that our society has attained social " "perfection — that your grandchildren in 50 years will ask you to tell them " @@ -2883,17 +2884,17 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2286 +#: complete-book.xml:2291 msgid "A private realm is necessary for human progress." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2289 +#: complete-book.xml:2294 msgid "Any data you collect and retain will eventually leak" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2291 +#: complete-book.xml:2296 msgid "" "The lack of a private life can rob vulnerable people of the chance to be " "their authentic selves and constrain our actions by depriving us of " @@ -2902,7 +2903,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2297 +#: complete-book.xml:2302 msgid "" "Personally identifying information is of very limited use for the purpose of " "controlling peoples’ minds, but identity theft — really a catchall term for " @@ -2912,7 +2913,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2305 +#: complete-book.xml:2310 msgid "" "Attackers are not limited to using data from one breached source, " "either. Multiple services have suffered breaches that exposed names, " @@ -2926,7 +2927,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2317 +#: complete-book.xml:2322 msgid "" "For example, attackers can use leaked username and password combinations to " "hijack whole fleets of commercial vehicles that <ulink " @@ -2941,7 +2942,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2330 +#: complete-book.xml:2335 msgid "" "Attackers are endlessly inventive in the pursuit of creative ways to " "weaponize leaked data. One common use of leaked data is to penetrate " @@ -2949,7 +2950,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2335 +#: complete-book.xml:2340 msgid "" "Like spies, online fraudsters are totally dependent on companies " "over-collecting and over-retaining our data. Spy agencies sometimes pay " @@ -2960,7 +2961,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2343 +#: complete-book.xml:2348 msgid "" "The over-collection of data has a host of terrible social consequences, from " "the erosion of our authentic selves to the undermining of social progress, " @@ -2970,12 +2971,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2351 +#: complete-book.xml:2356 msgid "Critical tech exceptionalism is still tech exceptionalism" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2354 +#: complete-book.xml:2359 msgid "" "Big Tech has long practiced technology exceptionalism: the idea that it " "should not be subject to the mundane laws and norms of " @@ -2985,14 +2986,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2360 +#: complete-book.xml:2365 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:2364 +#: complete-book.xml:2369 msgid "" "Big Tech is not a <quote>rogue capitalism</quote> that cannot be cured " "through the traditional anti-monopoly remedies of trustbusting (forcing " @@ -3005,7 +3006,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2374 +#: complete-book.xml:2379 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 " @@ -3013,7 +3014,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2380 +#: complete-book.xml:2385 msgid "" "For generations, the advertising industry has been steadily improving its " "ability to sell advertising services to businesses while only making " @@ -3025,7 +3026,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2390 +#: complete-book.xml:2395 msgid "" "The tech industry has made enormous improvements in the science of " "convincing businesses that they’re good at advertising while their actual " @@ -3039,7 +3040,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2402 +#: complete-book.xml:2407 msgid "" "It’s tempting to think that if businesses are willing to pour billions into " "a venture that the venture must be a good one. Yet there are plenty of times " @@ -3055,7 +3056,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2416 +#: complete-book.xml:2421 msgid "" "The claims of Big Tech’s mind-control system are full of tells that the " "enterprise is a con. For example, <ulink " @@ -3069,7 +3070,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2426 +#: complete-book.xml:2431 msgid "" "Big Tech’s promotional materials also claim that their algorithms can " "accurately perform <quote>sentiment analysis</quote> or detect peoples’ " @@ -3085,7 +3086,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2439 +#: complete-book.xml:2444 msgid "" "Big Tech has been so good at marketing its own supposed superpowers that " "it’s easy to believe that they can market everything else with similar " @@ -3099,7 +3100,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2451 +#: complete-book.xml:2456 msgid "" "That skepticism should infuse all of our evaluations of Big Tech and its " "supposed abilities, including our perusal of its patents. Zuboff vests these " @@ -3112,7 +3113,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2461 +#: complete-book.xml:2466 msgid "" "Patent applications take the form of a series of claims and range from broad " "to narrow. A typical patent starts out by claiming that its authors have " @@ -3129,7 +3130,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2476 +#: complete-book.xml:2481 msgid "" "What’s more, software patents are routinely granted even though the filer " "doesn’t have any evidence that they can do the thing claimed by the " @@ -3138,7 +3139,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2482 +#: complete-book.xml:2487 msgid "" "With these considerations in hand, it becomes obvious that the fact that a " "Big Tech company has patented what it <emphasis>says</emphasis> is an " @@ -3147,7 +3148,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2489 +#: complete-book.xml:2494 msgid "" "Big Tech collects our data for many reasons, including the diminishing " "returns on existing stores of data. But many tech companies also collect " @@ -3159,7 +3160,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2499 +#: complete-book.xml:2504 msgid "" "Data mined for predictive systems doesn’t necessarily produce these " "dividends. Think of Netflix: The predictive value of the data mined from a " @@ -3172,7 +3173,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2510 +#: complete-book.xml:2515 msgid "" "Businesses pursue fads to the detriment of their profits all the time, " "especially when the businesses and their investors are not motivated by the " @@ -3184,7 +3185,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2519 +#: complete-book.xml:2524 msgid "" "This is another harm of tech exceptionalism: The belief that more data " "always produces more profits in the form of more insights that can be " @@ -3200,14 +3201,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2533 +#: complete-book.xml:2538 msgid "" "How monopolies, not mind control, drive surveillance capitalism: The " "Snapchat story" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2536 +#: complete-book.xml:2541 msgid "" "For the first decade of its existence, Facebook competed with the social " "media giants of the day (Myspace, Orkut, etc.) by presenting itself as the " @@ -3219,7 +3220,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2546 +#: complete-book.xml:2551 msgid "" "Despite frequent promises that it would never collect or analyze its users’ " "data, Facebook periodically created initiatives that did just that, like the " @@ -3233,7 +3234,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2558 +#: complete-book.xml:2563 msgid "" "The pace at which Facebook ramped up its surveillance efforts seems to have " "been set by Facebook’s competitive landscape. The more competitors Facebook " @@ -3244,7 +3245,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2566 +#: complete-book.xml:2571 msgid "" "All the while, Facebook was prodigiously acquiring companies, including a " "company called Onavo. Nominally, Onavo made a battery-monitoring mobile " @@ -3254,7 +3255,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2574 +#: complete-book.xml:2579 msgid "" "Through Onavo, Facebook discovered that it was losing market share to " "Snapchat, an app that — like Facebook a decade before — billed itself as the " @@ -3268,7 +3269,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2586 +#: complete-book.xml:2591 msgid "" "The story of how Facebook crushed Snapchat reveals the relationship between " "monopoly and surveillance capitalism. Facebook combined surveillance with " @@ -3282,12 +3283,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2598 +#: complete-book.xml:2603 msgid "A monopoly over your friends" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2600 +#: complete-book.xml:2605 msgid "" "A decentralization movement has tried to erode the dominance of Facebook and " "other Big Tech companies by fielding <quote>indieweb</quote> alternatives — " @@ -3296,7 +3297,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2607 +#: complete-book.xml:2612 msgid "" "Fundamentally, each of these services is hamstrung by the same problem: " "Every potential user for a Facebook or Twitter alternative has to convince " @@ -3308,7 +3309,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2617 +#: complete-book.xml:2622 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 " @@ -3316,7 +3317,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2622 +#: complete-book.xml:2627 msgid "" "And yet, all of today’s tech giants came into existence despite the " "entrenched advantage of the companies that came before them. To understand " @@ -3325,12 +3326,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2629 +#: complete-book.xml:2634 msgid "The hard problem of our species is coordination." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2633 +#: complete-book.xml:2638 msgid "" "<quote>Interoperability</quote> is the ability of two technologies to work " "with one another: Anyone can make an LP that will play on any record player, " @@ -3342,7 +3343,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2642 +#: complete-book.xml:2647 msgid "" "Interoperability is often a source of innovation and consumer benefit: Apple " "made the first commercially successful PC, but millions of independent " @@ -3359,7 +3360,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2657 +#: complete-book.xml:2662 msgid "" "<quote>Interoperability</quote> is often used interchangeably with " "<quote>standardization,</quote> which is the process when manufacturers and " @@ -3370,7 +3371,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2665 +#: complete-book.xml:2670 msgid "" "But interoperability doesn’t require standardization — indeed, " "standardization often proceeds from the chaos of ad hoc interoperability " @@ -3384,7 +3385,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2676 +#: complete-book.xml:2681 msgid "" "Beyond neutral interoperability, there is <quote>adversarial " "interoperability.</quote> That’s when a manufacturer makes a product that " @@ -3394,7 +3395,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2684 +#: complete-book.xml:2689 msgid "" "Probably the most familiar form of adversarial interoperability is " "third-party printer ink. Printer manufacturers claim that they sell printers " @@ -3406,7 +3407,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2693 +#: complete-book.xml:2698 msgid "" "Owners of printers take the position that HP and Epson and Brother are not " "charities and that customers for their wares have no obligation to help them " @@ -3421,7 +3422,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2706 +#: complete-book.xml:2711 msgid "" "Adversarial interoperability has played an outsized role in the history of " "the tech industry: from the founding of the <quote>alt.*</quote> Usenet " @@ -3437,7 +3438,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2720 +#: complete-book.xml:2725 msgid "" "Today, incumbency is seen as an unassailable advantage. Facebook is where " "all of your friends are, so no one can start a Facebook competitor. But " @@ -3454,7 +3455,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2735 +#: complete-book.xml:2740 msgid "" "Adversarial interoperability was once the norm and a key contributor to the " "dynamic, vibrant tech scene, but now it is stuck behind a thicket of laws " @@ -3466,7 +3467,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2745 +#: complete-book.xml:2750 msgid "" "In the absence of a competitive market, lawmakers have resorted to assigning " "expensive, state-like duties to Big Tech firms, such as automatically " @@ -3476,7 +3477,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2753 +#: complete-book.xml:2758 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 " @@ -3484,7 +3485,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2758 +#: complete-book.xml:2763 msgid "" "But that’s not the only way in which making platforms responsible for " "policing their users undermines competition. A platform that is expected to " @@ -3498,7 +3499,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2770 +#: complete-book.xml:2775 msgid "" "To the extent that we are willing to let Big Tech police itself — rather " "than making Big Tech small enough that users can leave bad platforms for " @@ -3511,7 +3512,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2780 +#: complete-book.xml:2785 msgid "" "Ultimately, we can try to fix Big Tech by making it responsible for bad acts " "by its users, or we can try to fix the internet by cutting Big Tech down to " @@ -3526,12 +3527,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:2792 +#: complete-book.xml:2797 msgid "Fake news is an epistemological crisis" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2794 +#: complete-book.xml:2799 msgid "" "Tech is not the only industry that has undergone massive concentration since " "the Reagan era. Virtually every major industry — from oil to newspapers to " @@ -3540,7 +3541,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2801 +#: complete-book.xml:2806 msgid "" "At the same time, every industry has become something of a tech industry as " "general-purpose computers and general-purpose networks and the promise of " @@ -3549,7 +3550,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2807 +#: complete-book.xml:2812 msgid "" "This phenomenon of industrial concentration is part of a wider story about " "wealth concentration overall as a smaller and smaller number of people own " @@ -3559,7 +3560,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2815 +#: complete-book.xml:2820 msgid "" "That means that whenever a regulator asks a question with an obvious, " "empirical answer (<quote>Are humans causing climate change?</quote> or " @@ -3571,7 +3572,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2824 +#: complete-book.xml:2829 msgid "" "Rich people have always played an outsized role in politics and more so " "since the Supreme Court’s <emphasis>Citizens United</emphasis> decision " @@ -3582,7 +3583,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2833 +#: complete-book.xml:2838 msgid "" "But the policy distortions of rich individuals pale in comparison to the " "policy distortions that concentrated industries are capable of. The " @@ -3593,7 +3594,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2842 +#: complete-book.xml:2847 msgid "" "Concentrated industries also find it easier to collaborate on policy " "objectives than competitive ones. When all the top execs from your industry " @@ -3603,7 +3604,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2849 +#: complete-book.xml:2854 msgid "" "Rising through the ranks in a concentrated industry generally means working " "at two or three of the big companies. When there are only relatively few " @@ -3617,7 +3618,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2861 +#: complete-book.xml:2866 msgid "" "Highly concentrated industries also present a regulatory conundrum. When an " "industry is dominated by just four or five companies, the only people who " @@ -3630,7 +3631,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2872 +#: complete-book.xml:2877 msgid "" "All this is to say that the tight social bonds, small number of firms, and " "regulatory capture of concentrated industries give the companies that " @@ -3639,7 +3640,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2878 +#: complete-book.xml:2883 msgid "" "This is increasingly obvious. Whether it’s payday lenders <ulink " "url=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/02/25/how-payday-lending-industry-insider-tilted-academic-research-its-favor/\">winning " @@ -3655,7 +3656,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2892 +#: complete-book.xml:2897 msgid "" "It’s really impossible to overstate what a terrifying prospect this is. We " "live in an incredibly high-tech society, and none of us could acquire the " @@ -3673,7 +3674,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2909 +#: complete-book.xml:2914 msgid "" "In a world as complex as this one, we have to defer to authorities, and we " "keep them honest by making those authorities accountable to us and binding " @@ -3684,12 +3685,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2918 +#: complete-book.xml:2923 msgid "Right now, it’s obviously not." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2921 +#: complete-book.xml:2926 msgid "" "The past 40 years of rising inequality and industry concentration, together " "with increasingly weak accountability and transparency for expert agencies, " @@ -3700,7 +3701,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2929 +#: complete-book.xml:2934 msgid "" "For example, it’s been decades since Exxon’s own scientists concluded that " "its products would render the Earth uninhabitable by humans. And yet those " @@ -3713,7 +3714,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2940 +#: complete-book.xml:2945 msgid "" "The collapse of the credibility of our systems for divining and upholding " "truths has left us in a state of epistemological chaos. Once, most of us " @@ -3724,7 +3725,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2949 +#: complete-book.xml:2954 msgid "" "If you’re like me, you probably believe that vaccines are safe, but you " "(like me) probably also can’t explain the microbiology or statistics. Few of " @@ -3742,7 +3743,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2966 +#: complete-book.xml:2971 msgid "" "I’m 100% certain that vaccinating is safe and effective, but I’m also at " "something of a loss to explain exactly, <emphasis>precisely,</emphasis> why " @@ -3752,7 +3753,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2974 +#: complete-book.xml:2979 msgid "" "Fake news — conspiracy theories, racist ideologies, scientific denialism — " "has always been with us. What’s changed today is not the mix of ideas in the " @@ -3763,7 +3764,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2983 +#: complete-book.xml:2988 msgid "" "No one can say for certain why this has happened, but the two dominant camps " "are idealism (the belief that the people who argue for these conspiracies " @@ -3773,7 +3774,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2991 +#: complete-book.xml:2996 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 " @@ -3781,7 +3782,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:2996 +#: complete-book.xml:3001 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 " @@ -3789,7 +3790,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3001 +#: complete-book.xml:3006 msgid "" "We have always had disagreements about what’s true, but today, we have a " "disagreement over how we know whether something is true. This is an " @@ -3803,7 +3804,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3012 +#: complete-book.xml:3017 msgid "" "Targeting — surveillance capitalism — makes it easier to find people who are " "undergoing this epistemological crisis, but it doesn’t create the " @@ -3811,7 +3812,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3017 +#: complete-book.xml:3022 msgid "" "And, conveniently enough, it’s corruption that allows surveillance " "capitalism to grow by dismantling monopoly protections, by permitting " @@ -3822,12 +3823,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3026 +#: complete-book.xml:3031 msgid "Tech is different" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3028 +#: complete-book.xml:3033 msgid "" "I reject both iterations of technological exceptionalism. I reject the idea " "that tech is uniquely terrible and led by people who are greedier or worse " @@ -3837,7 +3838,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3036 +#: complete-book.xml:3041 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 " @@ -3845,7 +3846,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3041 +#: complete-book.xml:3046 msgid "" "But there’s one way in which I <emphasis>am</emphasis> a tech " "exceptionalist. I believe that online tools are the key to overcoming " @@ -3858,7 +3859,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3052 +#: complete-book.xml:3057 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 " @@ -3866,7 +3867,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3057 +#: complete-book.xml:3062 msgid "" "The internet makes it easier than at any time before to find people who want " "to work on a project with you — hence the success of free and open-source " @@ -3875,7 +3876,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3063 +#: complete-book.xml:3068 msgid "" "The internet and the computers we connect to it also possess an exceptional " "quality: general-purposeness. The internet is designed to allow any two " @@ -3886,7 +3887,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3072 +#: complete-book.xml:3077 msgid "" "This means that every time someone with a special communications need " "invests in infrastructure and techniques to make the internet faster, " @@ -3898,7 +3899,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3081 +#: complete-book.xml:3086 msgid "" "For these reasons, every type of communication is gradually absorbed into " "the internet, and every type of device — from airplanes to pacemakers — " @@ -3906,7 +3907,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3086 +#: complete-book.xml:3091 msgid "" "While these considerations don’t preclude regulating networks and computers, " "they do call for gravitas and caution when doing so because changes to " @@ -3915,7 +3916,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3092 +#: complete-book.xml:3097 msgid "" "The upshot of this is that our best hope of solving the big coordination " "problems — climate change, inequality, etc. — is with free, fair, and open " @@ -3925,12 +3926,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3100 +#: complete-book.xml:3105 msgid "Ownership of facts" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3102 +#: complete-book.xml:3107 msgid "" "Big Tech has a funny relationship with information. When you’re generating " "information — anything from the location data streaming off your mobile " @@ -3939,7 +3940,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3109 +#: complete-book.xml:3114 msgid "" "But when you have the audacity to turn the tables — to use a tool that " "blocks ads or slurps your waiting updates out of a social network and puts " @@ -3949,7 +3950,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3116 +#: complete-book.xml:3121 msgid "" "The thing is, information is a very bad fit for any kind of private property " "regime. Property rights are useful for establishing markets that can lead to " @@ -3959,7 +3960,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3123 +#: complete-book.xml:3128 msgid "" "Information rarely has such a clear title. Take phone numbers: There’s " "clearly something going wrong when Facebook slurps up millions of users’ " @@ -3968,7 +3969,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3130 +#: complete-book.xml:3135 msgid "" "But the phone numbers Facebook nonconsensually acquires in this transaction " "are not the <quote>property</quote> of the users they’re taken from nor do " @@ -3980,7 +3981,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3139 +#: complete-book.xml:3144 msgid "" "Likewise for the facts that Facebook and other commercial surveillance " "operators acquire about us, like that we are the children of our parents or " @@ -3995,7 +3996,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3152 +#: complete-book.xml:3157 msgid "" "If you go to a Black Lives Matter demonstration, do the other demonstrators " "need your permission to post their photos from the event? The online fights " @@ -4007,7 +4008,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3161 +#: complete-book.xml:3166 msgid "" "The fact that information isn’t a good fit with property and markets doesn’t " "mean that it’s not valuable. Babies aren’t property, but they’re inarguably " @@ -4019,7 +4020,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3170 +#: complete-book.xml:3175 msgid "" "It’s tempting to reach for the property hammer when Big Tech treats your " "information like a nail — not least because Big Tech are such prolific " @@ -4032,7 +4033,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3181 +#: complete-book.xml:3186 msgid "" "Meanwhile, establishing property rights over information will create " "insurmountable barriers to independent data processing. Imagine that we " @@ -4048,7 +4049,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3196 +#: complete-book.xml:3201 msgid "" "The same goes for things like search indexes of the web or photos of " "peoples’ houses, which have become contentious thanks to Google’s Street " @@ -4064,7 +4065,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3210 +#: complete-book.xml:3215 msgid "" "The ownership of facts is antithetical to many kinds of human progress. It’s " "hard to imagine a rule that limits Big Tech’s exploitation of our collective " @@ -4076,12 +4077,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3220 +#: complete-book.xml:3225 msgid "Persuasion works… slowly" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3222 +#: complete-book.xml:3227 msgid "" "The platforms may oversell their ability to persuade people, but obviously, " "persuasion works sometimes. Whether it’s the private realm that LGBTQ people " @@ -4092,7 +4093,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3231 +#: complete-book.xml:3236 msgid "" "The project of shifting societal attitudes is a game of inches and " "years. For centuries, svengalis have purported to be able to accelerate this " @@ -4105,7 +4106,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3242 +#: complete-book.xml:3247 msgid "" "Yet, after 12 years of terror, once the war ended, Nazi ideology was largely " "discredited in both East and West Germany, and a program of national truth " @@ -4117,7 +4118,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3252 +#: complete-book.xml:3257 msgid "" "Racism and authoritarianism have also always been with us. Anyone who’s " "reviewed the kind of messages and arguments that racists put forward today " @@ -4129,7 +4130,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3261 +#: complete-book.xml:3266 msgid "" "If racists haven’t gotten more convincing in the past decade, then how is it " "that more people were convinced to be openly racist at that time? I believe " @@ -4149,19 +4150,19 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3280 +#: complete-book.xml:3285 msgid "Paying won’t help" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3282 +#: complete-book.xml:3287 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:3286 +#: complete-book.xml:3291 msgid "" "It’s a commonplace belief today that the advent of free, ad-supported media " "was the original sin of surveillance capitalism. The reasoning is that the " @@ -4175,7 +4176,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3298 +#: complete-book.xml:3303 msgid "" "But the degradation of news products long precedes the advent of " "ad-supported online news. Long before newspapers were online, lax antitrust " @@ -4190,7 +4191,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3311 +#: complete-book.xml:3316 msgid "" "Then, as news companies <emphasis>did</emphasis> come online, the ad " "revenues they commanded dropped even as the number of internet users (and " @@ -4203,7 +4204,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3321 +#: complete-book.xml:3326 msgid "" "Paid services continue to exist alongside free ones, and often it is these " "paid services — anxious to prevent people from bypassing their paywalls or " @@ -4223,7 +4224,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3340 +#: complete-book.xml:3345 msgid "" "We shouldn’t just be concerned about payment and control: The idea that " "paying will improve discourse is also dangerously wrong. The poor success " @@ -4237,7 +4238,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3351 +#: complete-book.xml:3356 msgid "" "Perhaps paying would fix this, the reasoning goes. If platforms could be " "economically viable even if you stopped clicking on them once your " @@ -4246,7 +4247,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3358 +#: complete-book.xml:3363 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 " @@ -4254,7 +4255,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3363 +#: complete-book.xml:3368 msgid "" "Platforms are world-spanning and all-encompassing because they are " "monopolies, and they are monopolies because we have gutted our most " @@ -4267,7 +4268,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3374 +#: complete-book.xml:3379 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 " @@ -4275,7 +4276,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3379 +#: complete-book.xml:3384 msgid "" "If you think today’s filter bubbles are a problem for our discourse, imagine " "what they’d be like if rich people inhabited free-flowing Athenian " @@ -4291,7 +4292,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3393 +#: complete-book.xml:3398 msgid "" "Behind the idea of paying for access is a belief that free markets will " "address Big Tech’s dysfunction. After all, to the extent that people have a " @@ -4306,7 +4307,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3406 +#: complete-book.xml:3411 msgid "" "Advocates for markets laud their ability to aggregate the diffused knowledge " "of buyers and sellers across a whole society through demand signals, price " @@ -4320,7 +4321,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3418 +#: complete-book.xml:3423 msgid "" "The profitability of any business is constrained by the possibility that its " "customers will take their business elsewhere. Both surveillance and lock-in " @@ -4332,7 +4333,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3428 +#: complete-book.xml:3433 msgid "" "Ultimately, surveillance and lock-in are both simply business strategies " "that monopolists can choose. Surveillance companies like Google are " @@ -4348,12 +4349,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3443 +#: complete-book.xml:3448 msgid "An <quote>ecology</quote> moment for trustbusting" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3445 +#: complete-book.xml:3450 msgid "" "If we’re going to break Big Tech’s death grip on our digital lives, we’re " "going to have to fight monopolies. That may sound pretty mundane and " @@ -4363,7 +4364,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3452 +#: complete-book.xml:3457 msgid "" "Meanwhile, breaking up monopolies is something we seem to have forgotten how " "to do. There is a bipartisan, trans-Atlantic consensus that breaking up " @@ -4374,7 +4375,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3460 +#: complete-book.xml:3465 msgid "" "But trustbusters once strode the nation, brandishing law books, terrorizing " "robber barons, and shattering the illusion of monopolies’ all-powerful grip " @@ -4384,12 +4385,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3468 +#: complete-book.xml:3473 msgid "Could we find that political will again?" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3471 +#: complete-book.xml:3476 msgid "" "Copyright scholar James Boyle has described how the term " "<quote>ecology</quote> marked a turning point in environmental " @@ -4400,7 +4401,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3479 +#: complete-book.xml:3484 msgid "" "But the term <quote>ecology</quote> welded these disparate causes together " "into a single movement, and the members of this movement found solidarity " @@ -4413,7 +4414,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3490 +#: complete-book.xml:3495 msgid "" "I believe we are on the verge of a new <quote>ecology</quote> moment " "dedicated to combating monopolies. After all, tech isn’t the only " @@ -4422,7 +4423,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3496 +#: complete-book.xml:3501 msgid "" "You can find partisans for trustbusting in every sector of the " "economy. Everywhere you look, you can find people who’ve been wronged by " @@ -4434,7 +4435,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3506 +#: complete-book.xml:3511 msgid "" "That’s the good news: With a little bit of work and a little bit of " "coalition building, we have more than enough political will to break up Big " @@ -4443,7 +4444,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3512 +#: complete-book.xml:3517 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 " @@ -4451,7 +4452,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3517 +#: complete-book.xml:3522 msgid "" "Big Tech’s concentration currently means that their inaction on harassment, " "for example, leaves users with an impossible choice: absent themselves from " @@ -4465,7 +4466,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3529 +#: complete-book.xml:3534 msgid "" "Yet governments confronting all of these problems all inevitably converge on " "the same solution: deputize the Big Tech giants to police their users and " @@ -4476,7 +4477,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3538 +#: complete-book.xml:3543 msgid "" "These rules — the EU’s new Directive on Copyright, Australia’s new terror " "regulation, America’s FOSTA/SESTA sex-trafficking law and more — are not " @@ -4487,7 +4488,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3547 +#: complete-book.xml:3552 msgid "" "That’s because any move to break up Big Tech and cut it down to size will " "have to cope with the hard limit of not making these companies so small that " @@ -4502,7 +4503,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3559 +#: complete-book.xml:3564 msgid "" "Allowing the platforms to grow to their present size has given them a " "dominance that is nearly insurmountable — deputizing them with public duties " @@ -4514,7 +4515,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3569 +#: complete-book.xml:3574 msgid "" "We can work to fix the internet by breaking up Big Tech and depriving them " "of monopoly profits, or we can work to fix Big Tech by making them spend " @@ -4525,12 +4526,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3577 +#: complete-book.xml:3582 msgid "Make Big Tech small again" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3579 +#: complete-book.xml:3584 msgid "" "Trustbusting is hard. Breaking big companies into smaller ones is expensive " "and time-consuming. So time-consuming that by the time you’re done, the " @@ -4541,14 +4542,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><blockquote><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3589 +#: complete-book.xml:3594 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:3594 +#: complete-book.xml:3599 msgid "" "It’s far easier to prevent concentration than to fix it, and reinstating the " "traditional contours of U.S. antitrust enforcement will, at the very least, " @@ -4558,7 +4559,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3602 +#: complete-book.xml:3607 msgid "" "These powers are all in the plain language of U.S. antitrust laws, so in " "theory, a future U.S. president could simply direct their attorney general " @@ -4570,7 +4571,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3611 +#: complete-book.xml:3616 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 " @@ -4586,7 +4587,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3625 +#: complete-book.xml:3630 msgid "" "But this only prevents things from getting worse. To help them get better, " "we will have to build coalitions with other activists in the anti-monopoly " @@ -4597,7 +4598,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3634 +#: complete-book.xml:3639 msgid "" "In an important sense, it doesn’t matter which industry the breakups begin " "in. Once they start, shareholders in <emphasis>every</emphasis> industry " @@ -4616,12 +4617,12 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3651 +#: complete-book.xml:3656 msgid "20 GOTO 10" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3653 +#: complete-book.xml:3658 msgid "" "Fixing Big Tech will require a lot of iteration. As cyber lawyer Lawrence " "Lessig wrote in his 1999 book, <emphasis>Code and Other Laws of " @@ -4631,7 +4632,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3660 +#: complete-book.xml:3665 msgid "" "If you could wave a wand and get Congress to pass a law that re-fanged the " "Sherman Act tomorrow, you could use the impending breakups to convince " @@ -4640,14 +4641,14 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3667 +#: complete-book.xml:3672 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:3672 +#: complete-book.xml:3677 msgid "" "Getting people to care about monopolies will take technological " "interventions that help them to see what a world free from Big Tech might " @@ -4662,7 +4663,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3684 +#: complete-book.xml:3689 msgid "" "Neither tech nor law nor code nor markets are sufficient to reform Big " "Tech. But a profitable competitor to Big Tech could bankroll a legislative " @@ -4678,7 +4679,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3698 +#: complete-book.xml:3703 msgid "" "The surveillance capitalism hypothesis — that Big Tech’s products really " "work as well as they say they do and that’s why everything is so screwed up " @@ -4690,7 +4691,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3707 +#: complete-book.xml:3712 msgid "" "As to why things are so screwed up? Capitalism. Specifically, the monopolism " "that creates inequality and the inequality that creates monopolism. It’s a " @@ -4703,7 +4704,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3718 +#: complete-book.xml:3723 msgid "" "Surveillance doesn’t make capitalism rogue. Capitalism’s unchecked rule " "begets surveillance. Surveillance isn’t bad because it lets people " @@ -4715,19 +4716,19 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><title> -#: complete-book.xml:3727 +#: complete-book.xml:3732 msgid "Up and through" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3729 +#: complete-book.xml:3734 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:3734 +#: complete-book.xml:3739 msgid "" "The only way out of our Big Tech problem is up and through. If our future is " "not reliant upon high tech, it will be because civilization has fallen. Big " @@ -4739,7 +4740,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><sect1><para> -#: complete-book.xml:3744 +#: complete-book.xml:3749 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 "