A good companion piece to the Assange article. "Constant surveillance creates a prison of the mind.. Archived Message
Posted by brooks on May 6, 2019, 1:40 pm, in reply to "Once we searched Google, now Google searches us"
...The surveillance innovations of big tech strike straight at what makes us human-our privacy, our agency, our autonomy, and our need for solitude. Ruboff warns that Silicon Valley’s doctrine of technological inevitability “carries a weaponised virus of moral nihilism programmed to target human agency and delete resistance and creativity from the text of human possibility.” Greenwald has been warning about the same things for a long time as well. The slow and steady normalization in the public mind of living in a Truman-Show dystopia of constant surveillance is a classic case of boiling frog syndrome.
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