Big Tech and the Crisis of Surveillance Capitalism | Cory Doctorow - Medium in Conversation

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His latest book is Attack Surface, a standalone adult sequel to Little Brother. He is also the author How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, a nonfiction book from Medium about conspiracies and monopolies. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science, and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group.
Damon Beres is the Editor-in-Chief of OneZero, a Medium publication about the impact of technology on people and the future. OneZero’s editorial team is also behind Debugger, a publication about gadgets, and Future Human, a science publication about the survival of our species.
Doctorow and Beres discuss surveillance capitalism, tech monopoly power, and the quest for a more open web. Weeks after the deplatforming of President Donald Trump-and with the Biden administration in the White House-the time is ripe to reexamine the power wielded by the giants of surveillance capitalism. How did corporations like Facebook, Google, and Amazon amass such power? How do we build a more open Web? What are the critics missing?
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[@XandriethXs]

Very valid points raised in a very well articulated way.... 🤓

[@FerdinandZebua]

I shared this video to Twitter today and it's still there on Twitter just fine, so far... two hours and counting...

[@svenkarlsen2702]

The problem with banning opinions is that you just remove them from view, and from public discourse.
They still exist, but now in places where they can thrive because they won't be scrutinized, discouraged, debunked, watched, etc.