In the Facebook aquarium | ippolita.net
mercredi 8 octobre 2014 à 18:08jeekajoo, le 08/10/2014 à 18:08
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The anarcho-capitalism of those Californian right-libertarians, who are extreme fans of capitalism without rules, is the main thread that allows us to connect Facebook to European Pirate Parties and Wikileaks. It might help to show that the algorithms applied in personalised advertising by the giants of online profiling (ie the new digital masters: Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon), are the very same algorithms used by despotic governments for personalised repression. The blind faith in a rescuing technology conceals Radical Transparency's opaque project of domination. We are faced with a technological dystopia that is capable of combining the emotional lobotomy of Huxley's unrestrained consumerism with the repressive paranoia of Orwellian control, all in the name of capital's freedom. No conspiracy, no paranoia: this is only the Digital Far West.
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The anarcho-capitalism of those Californian right-libertarians, who are extreme fans of capitalism without rules, is the main thread that allows us to connect Facebook to European Pirate Parties and Wikileaks. It might help to show that the algorithms applied in personalised advertising by the giants of online profiling (ie the new digital masters: Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon), are the very same algorithms used by despotic governments for personalised repression. The blind faith in a rescuing technology conceals Radical Transparency's opaque project of domination. We are faced with a technological dystopia that is capable of combining the emotional lobotomy of Huxley's unrestrained consumerism with the repressive paranoia of Orwellian control, all in the name of capital's freedom. No conspiracy, no paranoia: this is only the Digital Far West.
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