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Strypey

"Even Google staff complain that they can't figure out how to turn off location tracking [in Android]. Now, in any kind of sane world, this would be a prohibited activity. Section Five of the Federal Trade Commission Act gives the agency broad latitude to intervene to prevent ‘unfair and deceptive’ practices... And yet governments have taken no action."

, 2023

tni.org/en/article/seizing-the

Transnational InstituteSeizing the means of computation – how popular movements can topple Big Tech monopolies | Transnational InstituteCory Doctorow is a prolific writer and a brilliant science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. His most recent book is Chokepoint Capitalism (co-authored with Rebecca Giblin), a powerful expose of how tech monopolies have stifled creative labour markets and how movements might fight back. Nick Buxton, editor of TNI’s State of Power report and Shaun Matsheza, host of the State of Power podcast, chatted to Cory in the wake of floods in his hometown of Burbank, California. This is an edited excerpt of the interview.
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Strypey

"...there's about a one in five chance per year that any given defect will be independently rediscovered and used by either criminals or a hostile government, which means that the US government exposed its stakeholders, firms and individuals to a gigantic amount of risk by discovering these defects and then not moving swiftly to plug up these loopholes. And that risk really is best expressed in the current ransomware epidemic [eg Waikato DHB]..."

, 2023

tni.org/en/article/seizing-the

Transnational InstituteSeizing the means of computation – how popular movements can topple Big Tech monopolies | Transnational InstituteCory Doctorow is a prolific writer and a brilliant science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. His most recent book is Chokepoint Capitalism (co-authored with Rebecca Giblin), a powerful expose of how tech monopolies have stifled creative labour markets and how movements might fight back. Nick Buxton, editor of TNI’s State of Power report and Shaun Matsheza, host of the State of Power podcast, chatted to Cory in the wake of floods in his hometown of Burbank, California. This is an edited excerpt of the interview.
Strypey

"We have frozen tech in time by allowing firms that have access to the capital markets to decide what the future of tech is going to look like. It's a planned economy, but it's one that's planned by a few very powerful financiers and the executives of a few large companies, not by lawmakers or democratically accountable government – or indeed by an autocrat, or at least an autocrat in office. We get autocrats in boardrooms these days."

Cory Doctorow, 2023

tni.org/en/article/seizing-the

Transnational InstituteSeizing the means of computation – how popular movements can topple Big Tech monopolies | Transnational InstituteCory Doctorow is a prolific writer and a brilliant science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. His most recent book is Chokepoint Capitalism (co-authored with Rebecca Giblin), a powerful expose of how tech monopolies have stifled creative labour markets and how movements might fight back. Nick Buxton, editor of TNI’s State of Power report and Shaun Matsheza, host of the State of Power podcast, chatted to Cory in the wake of floods in his hometown of Burbank, California. This is an edited excerpt of the interview.
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Strypey

Hey there Anticommunists, John Birchers, et al, the "Communism" (TM) you fear has already taken over. Unaccountable transnational bureaucracies *are* planning the global economy for their own empowerment and enrichment, at the expense of the rest of us (and the environment). But the people running it are not Marxist-Leninist tankies or Maoist guerillas. They're the owners and executives of multinational corporations, and their ideologies are Taylorism and Vulgar Smithism, not Marxism or Maoism.

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Strypey

"I don't think [surveillance capitalism is] related to the business model."

Cory Doctorow, 2023

tni.org/en/article/seizing-the

I would really, really love to hear Cory debate this with Douglas Rushkoff. Author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, who popularized the idea that it's precisely about the business model. Sure enough, here's @Rushkoff interviewing @pluralistic about the Chokepoint Capitalism book on his podcast:

shows.acast.com/teamhuman/epis

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Transnational InstituteSeizing the means of computation – how popular movements can topple Big Tech monopolies | Transnational InstituteCory Doctorow is a prolific writer and a brilliant science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. His most recent book is Chokepoint Capitalism (co-authored with Rebecca Giblin), a powerful expose of how tech monopolies have stifled creative labour markets and how movements might fight back. Nick Buxton, editor of TNI’s State of Power report and Shaun Matsheza, host of the State of Power podcast, chatted to Cory in the wake of floods in his hometown of Burbank, California. This is an edited excerpt of the interview.
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Strypey

Now I want to hear Cory debate his contention that surveillance capitalism isn't "related to the business model" with Shoshana Zuboff. Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and one of the academics interviewed in The Social Dilemma. Who, like @Rushkoff, very much believes it's about the business model.

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Strypey

From the end of the monologue in the Team Human episode on Chokepoint Capitalism...

"Luckily, we are all, finally, getting the message. Oh, and you can find me from now on, on Mastodon, at @Rushkoff. Check it out.

I think we may be on the verge of having good, useful, fun again. Something has shifted. I feel it."

Welcome again Douglas, great to have you here :)

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