Big Brother
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Cyberfascism Bulletin: Hello, Summer! Edition
Anti-Social Media The Stanford Internet Observatory is revealed as a nest of snitches: My First Job, at the Stanford Internet Observatory “In actuality, SIO hired a load of interns to scan social media for posts deemed to be mis- and disinformation. It turns out that the posts we students flagged were often sent along to Read more
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The CyberFascism Bulletin: Summer Solstice Edition
Whether Industry absorbs the State, or the State absorbs Industry, the result is the same: fascism.And our Cybernetic Revolution makes this easier than ever. Big AI Bruce Schneier opines on How AI will change democracy: “Millions of AI-controlled social media accounts could fundamentally change the nature of propaganda.” (tip from The Geek Press) Sometimes big Read more
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Cyberfascism Bulletin, Dies y Seis Edition
Whether the State seizes Industry, or Industry seizes the State, the result is the same: fascism. –The Random Texan Big Media Our Chinese Big Brother The Counter-Revolution Read more
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The Cyberfascism Bulleting #3: Spring Cleaning Edition
BIG BIZ Uh, oh. The punditry is starting to wise up. Here’s 4 Reasons Why Big Tech is Hazardous to Our Lives. Google AI Ethics Council is Falling Apart. Part artistic ethical differences, part Googloid mau-mauing. Only the truly clueless would use “Google” and “ethics” in the same sentence. Time for a ‘Third-Party Audit’ of Read more
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The Cyberfascism Bulletin #2: April Fool’s Edition
I wish I was foolin’. All this stuff’s real, so the joke’s on us. BIG BIZ An oldie but goodie: Kim DuToit discovers that the Weather Channel app is selling his location data in near real time. He is not amused. Heck, I didn’t even realize that drunken online shopping was a thing. How naive Read more
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The Cyberfascism Bulletin #1: Spring Break Edition
This is the first in a continuing series of “callouts” detailing the onslaught of the ubiquitous surveillance and behavioral influence state. Remember, whether the state seizes industry, or industry seizes the state, the result is still fascism. BIG BIZ Volvo wants to spy on you while you drive. Two thoughts immediately came to mind: (1) Read more
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I never did like that little snitch…
…and now someone agrees with me. ‘Elf on the Shelf’ conditions kids to accept surveillance state, says Laura Pinto, a digital technology professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. You’re teaching (kids) a bigger lesson, which is that it’s OK for other people to spy on you and you’re not entitled to privacy,” Read more
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Some people can’t take a joke
The NSA doesn’t want you to have this t-shirt: So buy one here. A$$holes. Read more
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