‘The goal is to automate us’: The combination of state surveillance and its capitalist counterpart means that digital technology is separating the citizens in all societies into two groups: the watchers (invisible, unknown and unaccountable) and the watched.
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“Many of the sites that NewsGuard has ranked as “trustworthy”
have spent their past few days smearing the names of the
students of Covington Catholic High School.”
Just one more reason to use Firefox.
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I work closely with Microsoft at the enterprise level. Microsoft has gone all in on its Azure services, and the Azure business units are thoroughly infested with freetards who uniformly lean left to loony left. In addition to their penchant for software quality, compatibility and effective documentation[1], they’re bringing their stick-it-to-the-man attitude. Except now they are The Man, and they’ve got power they never could have dreamed of when they were installing Outrageous Ocelot on dumpster-dived Pentium IIs. There’s no longer any adult supervision over there.
[1] That’s sarcasm.
Thank you for the footnote or it Kyle have gone over my head.
In the last 2 months I’ve had to postpone releases due to Azure DevOps simply disappearing for hours at a time. I’d had moved off it months ago but I’m unable to sell up the chain that there are better (and reliable) options.
After this week and news that Trump lost the wall. We are losing, freedom is going. I’m at a point we should just all get our social credit scores now. I will be brushing up on my Newspeak. Trudeau will win this year. Trump will lose next. We are in the twilight of western civilisation. We had a good run. The forces arrayed against us are just too many. Might as well start now. If you talk to kids today they are 100% for this path. The sooner we start the sooner somebody can raise from the ashes (won’t be us)
“Social credit.” I’m convinced that name is someone’s final insult to the memory of Major Douglas, who made the prevention of monstrosities like the Chinese surveillance state his life’s work.
LOL cause nothing says ‘freedom’ like a wall to keep people from freely associating.
Walls aren’t to stop people freely associating. They are to stop people freely coming into your home and freely taking your stuff. Of course, you don’t live in building do you? You have no property, no possessions because you freely gave away all you had to the poor, didn’t you? And you go on striving every day to create more of the necessities of life, only to give it all away, don’t you, Unwit?
“…there may be sound antitrust reasons to break up the largest tech firms, but this alone will not eliminate surveillance capitalism. Instead it will produce smaller surveillance capitalist firms and open the field for more surveillance capitalist competitors.”
Many owned, no doubt, by Chinese oligarchs who do not even pretend to have the best interest of western civilization at heart.
Zuboff is saying what I’ve been saying for a long time, and what should have been obvious to everyone here. Nothing will change until the globalists are relieved of their control of the Internet in favour of good men accountable to the civilized peoples of Europe and their progeny in north America.
“Capitalism”
She keeps using that word.
Can you say “stasi”?
The FANGs are infantile compared to what the federales have access to on an ongoing basis. Not for nothing tens of thousands of video cameras in large cities, airports, highways etc. Granted they rely on human interpretation at the state and local levels but considering what the FANGs are upto in real time video and facial interpretations, what do you think the NSA has done. They have decades of high def satellite imagery to have practiced on and now all those video feeds on earth……
NSA has gone off the MSM radar but considering how the Chinese have upped the Orwell 1984 scenario to a real time basis, I doubt NSA is behind the curve.
too many words are being used to say very little. It is flat out spying on each and every individual who exists in the civilized world.
When did you all morph into Guardian-reading, private sector-bashing anti-capitalists?
Never.
That’s what they’ve always really been. They started dropping the mask around 2014 or so. These idiots have no actual ideas, they’re just unhappy that the world isn’t the same as it was in 1957.
The only watchers that are a real problem are the NSA et alia. Google and Amazon just want to sell me stuff. Cool.
The solution is hopefully MaidSafe.