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2019-04-14 -Land of the Free
Meet ‘Surveillance Capitalism,' Our Terrifying New Economic Order
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-14 00:42|| || Front Page|| [336077 views ]  Top

#1 I'll go a step further: it's a misnomer to call this capitalism per se. The companies aren't in this for the money anymore. They _get_ money from the Central Banks for providing Social Control Services.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-04-14 09:47||   2019-04-14 09:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Thing, one of my thoughts as well. "Surveillance capitalism" is more of a thing of the Deep State or Statism and an obsession for complete control. I think of this obsession as a leftist thing along the lines of the old USSR or Stasi-controlled East Germny. Maybe fascism better describes this form of government and economy.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-04-14 10:40||   2019-04-14 10:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Am exploring VAEX for transcript exploitation.

Looking forward to firing of Assange's 'dead man switch'.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-14 11:02||   2019-04-14 11:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Orwell described televisions in 1984 that were cameras as well as televisions so Big Brother could watch you in your home. How do we know that isn't being done today? I mean, just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not doing it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-04-14 14:21||   2019-04-14 14:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Software can be written to make hardware do anything. Anything. A couple of years ago a school loaned school owned laptops to students. What the students didn't realize was the laptops were recording video and audio of the students in their homes and sending that media back to a school server.
Posted by Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 2019-04-14 20:39||   2019-04-14 20:39|| Front Page Top

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