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Shoshana Zuboff

7 Jan, 3 tweets, 1 min read

Friends, Trump fulfilled his demented fantasy of murderous violence without consequence. This must not stand. History demands criminal prosecution / impeachment / immediate removal. 1/3

@FBoversight

Facebook and Twitter are profoundly culpable. A future at their mercy is intolerable. They must permanently end Trump’s access to the global info bloodstream. Jan 20 is not enough. They don’t have to love democracy, just cravenly respond to new political winds. @FBoversight 2/3

Now we reap the whirlwind of complacency. #SurveillanceCapitalism debases individual sovereignty, degrades society, assaults democracy. This third decade is the test: demand rights, laws, institutions for a democratic digital future. Let this be an unequivocal call to action. 3/3

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30 Jan

Friends, I’m so glad to share this new piece. A glimpse into my new work as we roll up our sleeves for #TheThirdDecade. It’s OUR TURN to shape the rights, laws, institutions, that allow democracy to flourish in our digital century.

"The intolerable truth is that we have ceded the ownership and operation of the digital to the political economics of private surveillance capital, which vies with democracy over the fundamental rights and principles that define our social order.”

The four stages of #SurveillanceCapitalism’s epistemic coup: 1) loss of epistemic rights, 2) sharp rise in epistemic inequality, 3) spread of #EpistemicChaos, 4) epistemic dominance.

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Shoshana Zuboff

@shoshanazuboff

9 Oct 20

@FBoversight

Friends, FB’s role in takedown of @FBoversight website looks like authoritarian censorship and testimony to Mr. Zuckerberg’s tyranny. It showcases the problems we joined up to fight: power, economic self-dealing, political corruption. @carolecadwalla , @tribelaw , @Moonalice 1/4

But even if it were ‘just business' triggered by domain name, consider the atrocity: FB allows Trump lies, trolls, calls to violence, fraudulent election claims, misinformation, voter suppression, fake videos, but acts quickly and decisively in favor of its domain protection? 2/4

Either way we are sucked into the moral vacuum at the heart of this societal threat, while corporate policy is delivered in crude dismissive tweets at an American moment heavy with danger. 3/4

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Shoshana Zuboff

@shoshanazuboff

13 Sep 20

1/5 Friends, thanks for so many beautiful notes inspired by seeing my original concept of #SurveillanceCapitalism featured in the film #TheSocialDilemma. As surveillance capitalism disfigures our lives and politics, let’s bring this urgent discussion to our families & communities

2/5 Remember that our social dilemma isn’t caused by a single company like Facebook or one CEO like Zuckerberg. Our social dilemma is that #SurveillanceCapitalism has captured our economy, our technology, and the digital future.

3/5 #SurveillanceCapitalism is a profit-driven economic logic based on STEALING our lives for data, behavioral predictions, and sales. Targeting, tech addiction, manipulation, violent content, fake news, and more are only effects of this greater cause.

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