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No matter how benevolent a dictatorship is, it's still a dictatorship, and subject to the dictator's whims. We must demand that the owners and leaders of tech platforms be fair and good - but we must also be prepared for them to fail at this, sometimes catastrophically. 1/ Moses confronting the Pharaoh, demanding that he release the
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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Maybe you trust #TimCook to decide what apps you are and aren't allowed to install - including whether you are allowed to install apps that block #Apple's own extensive, nonconsensual, continuous commercial surveillance of its customers. 3/
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'Tory MPs have so lost touch with their own supporters – let alone those millions who are not paid-up Tories – that they are seemingly oblivious to how their pathetic plots look to the people beyond the Westminster bubble.'
#NeverSunak
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'... our third action is to rewire the entire global financial system for Net Zero. ...'

#NetZero #CBDC #SocialCredit #CarbonCredits #DigitalFeudalism

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BlackRock's Larry Fink, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon, Bill Gates and others had dinner with Boris Johnson the night before the #CoronavirusAct was rubberstamped through Parliament and this appeared online:

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Tony Blair Institute's Tech Policy Fellowship is apparently developing public policy recommendations for Universal Basic Income based on the Central Bank Digital Currency for some reason.

#CBDC #SocialCredit #UBI #NetZero #BuildBackBetter #GreatReset #DigitalFeudalism #fascism
'New capabilities such as programmability, composability and tokenisation ... can be built on top of #CBDCs, fast payment systems and associated data architectures'

Translation: 'We want the peasants to use money that we can rig and control'

#GreatReset

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On August 23, 2019, while addressing the Federal Reserve Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming ...
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While #DigitalFeudalism is practiced by many Big Tech companies, Apple pioneered it and is its standard-bearer. The company rightly points out that the world is full of bandits who will steal your data and money and ruin your life, and it holds itself out as your protector.

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Apple is a warlord whose fortress has thick walls and battlements bristling with the most ferocious infosec mercs money can buy.

Surrender your autonomy by moving to Apple's fortress - where they choose your which apps and where you get repairs - and they'll defend you.

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This arrangement (which should really be called "digital manorialism" because feudalism involved providing men-at-arms to the monarch) has the same problem as all benevolent dictatorships: it works well, but fails badly.

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