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PaulaToThePeople
PaulaToThePeople
@PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

What is surveillance-fascism?
(a.k.a. what is the Fediverse missing?)

* big data
(collection of tons of private data used for profiling and authoritarian control)
* attention harvesting
(reducing attentionspan and causing addiction)
* ragebaiting
(hatred boosting alorithms & government botfarms)
* hyper-capitalism
(ads, more ads, profit, hidden ads, influencers, interrupting ads, plugs, camoflaged ads)
* AI

#SurveillanceFascism #SurveillanceCapitalism #enshittification #BigData #AttentionHarvesting #RageBait #HyperCapitalism #AI #LLMMeAlone #JoinTheFediverse

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Joachim Séné
Joachim Séné
@jsene@piaille.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@PaulaToThePeople This is nothing different than "surveillance capitalism" as defined by Shoshana Zuboff. Capitalism leads to fascism under certain circumstances, both are very compatible. Ads, more ads etc., is not "hyper capitalism", just basic capitalism. Capitalism is bad enough and current forms of fascism are using it very naturally and very efficiency.

1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial
practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of
goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; 3. A rogue
mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth, knowledge, and power unprecedented in
human history; 4. The foundational framework of a surveillance economy; 5. As significant a threat to
human nature in the twenty-first century as industrial capitalism was to the natural world in the nineteenth
and twentieth; 6. The origin of a new instrumentarian power that asserts dominance over society and
presents startling challenges to market democracy; 7. A movement that aims to impose a new collective
order based on total certainty; 8. An expropriation of critical human rights that is best understood as a
coup from above: an overthrow of the people’s sovereignty.
1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; 3. A rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth, knowledge, and power unprecedented in human history; 4. The foundational framework of a surveillance economy; 5. As significant a threat to human nature in the twenty-first century as industrial capitalism was to the natural world in the nineteenth and twentieth; 6. The origin of a new instrumentarian power that asserts dominance over society and presents startling challenges to market democracy; 7. A movement that aims to impose a new collective order based on total certainty; 8. An expropriation of critical human rights that is best understood as a coup from above: an overthrow of the people’s sovereignty.
1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; 3. A rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth, knowledge, and power unprecedented in human history; 4. The foundational framework of a surveillance economy; 5. As significant a threat to human nature in the twenty-first century as industrial capitalism was to the natural world in the nineteenth and twentieth; 6. The origin of a new instrumentarian power that asserts dominance over society and presents startling challenges to market democracy; 7. A movement that aims to impose a new collective order based on total certainty; 8. An expropriation of critical human rights that is best understood as a coup from above: an overthrow of the people’s sovereignty.
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Strypey
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@jsene
> This is nothing different than "surveillance capitalism" as defined by Shoshana Zuboff

There seems to be a lot of confusion about Zuboff's phrase. As I understand it, what it's referencing is that surveillance used to be a state function, and business people had as much incentive as anyone else to criticise and limit it. Then surveillance advertising was invented, and state-corporate surveillance merged by the Patriot Act, PRIMS, etc.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

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