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“The issue of sovereignty in cyberspace is not new. It is only finally reaching the logical implosion of its contradiction in open societies where the infrastructure of digital connectivity is controlled by private interests aligned with a libertarian worldview untethered from the grounded ethos of communities that must absorb its consequences.”
309 / Get curious, not furious
Yet in North America, raising the alarm about the fact that we have outsourced the management of our critical informational pathways to algorithms run by for-profit companies, working hand in glove with governments, somehow became the terrain of the Bannonite political right, which points to a dangerous ceding of ideological territory.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
there is a common trend at play. And the trend is this: control over users' data and digital possessions and activity is rapidly moving from an asset to a liability. Before, every bit of control you have was good: it gives you more flexibility to earn revenue, if not now then in the future. Now, every bit of control you have is a liability: you... See more