From 18e645d3ce76516b350315083d2e7e300208df50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2020 07:27:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Correct heading level and add author. --- how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.rst | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.rst b/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.rst index bfd6680..57e4d9d 100644 --- a/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.rst +++ b/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism.rst @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism ====================================== +:author: Cory Doctorow + The net of a thousand lies -------------------------- @@ -278,7 +280,7 @@ faculties, surveillance capitalists like Mark Zuckerberg mostly do one or more of three things: 1. Segmenting -------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you’re selling diapers, you have better luck if you pitch them to people in maternity wards. Not everyone who enters or leaves a maternity @@ -349,7 +351,7 @@ learned the right words from these low-cost means of finding people and learning about their ideas. 2. Deception ------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lies and fraud are pernicious, and surveillance capitalism supercharges them through targeting. If you want to sell a fraudulent payday loan or @@ -399,7 +401,7 @@ from the anti-vax issue in which someone’s true belief is displaced by a false one by means of sophisticated persuasion. 3. Domination -------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Surveillance capitalism is the result of monopoly. Monopoly is the cause, and surveillance capitalism and its negative outcomes are the @@ -445,7 +447,7 @@ impact of manipulation and should be central to our analysis and any remedies we seek. 4. Bypassing our rational faculties ------------------------------------ +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *This* is the good stuff: using machine learning, “dark patterns,” engagement hacking, and other techniques to get us to do things that run -- 2.47.2