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1. maeve (acrata@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2017 21:23:29 EST maeve

   How a half educated #tech elite delivered us into chaos. Key paragraph: "Put simply, what Google and Facebook have built is a pair of amazingly sophisticated, computer-driven engines for extracting users’ personal information and data trails, refining them for sale to advertisers in high-speed data-trading auctions that are entirely unregulated and opaque to everyone except the companies themselves." [and perhaps opaque to themselves] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/19/how-tech-leaders-delivered-us-into-evil-john-naughton

   1. stragu (stragu@mastodon.indie.host)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 00:24:33 EST stragu

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      @acrata man it's been raining crazy amounts of articles about how we cornered ourselves into a democracy-threatening privacy nightmare.