Reddit reviews The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

I was listening to an EconTalk with Shoshana Zuboff about her book "Surveillance Capitalism". She mentioned how tech giants have this cycle of getting their products out in the market:

1. Do whatever they want
   
2. When someone complains about it, just stonewall them for years
   
3. During these years, keep producing the products, keep extracting data. She called this habituation.
   
4. Years later, when the lawsuit finally reaches it ends, barely anyone knows wtf they were complaining about in the first place, and, by then, people are just accustomed to these data extracting products being in their homes.
   
   1. But if they have to do something, then do something small and meaningless that doesn't change the fact that they're fleecing everybody for their data.

For anyone still on the fence around the potential dangers of surveillance like this please read this book immediately:

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power https://www.amazon.com/dp/1610395697/

We have unknowingly given these companies ultimate power over our future. Three men control the majority of the world's opinions and have the ability to force their worldview on everyone.

The feeling of “inevitableness” is part of the strategy google and other data company’s are pushing so we feel helpless to stop them. Stop being helpless and merely accept the digital world the way (and extremely lucrative) Google and Facebook want it to be.

You don’t have to take my word for it. Harvard’s Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a fantastic overview.

Fuck Facebook. I get great joy in seeing that surveillance capitalism company slowly becoming distrusted by the masses and going to shit.

I would recommend checking out Age of Surveillance-Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.

It goes into detail about how companies use your data. Not Reddit specifically, but it's likely that many background checks will have any particularity spicy Reddit (or any other SM accounts they can tie you to) comments attached. You don't know what Reddit is selling.

I would highly recommend Shoshana Zuboff's newest book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, for a detailed and evidence based look at speech freedoms in the 21st century.

Firefox for personal browsing, StartPage for search. There are many reasons to eschew Google’s products, but a good argument can be found in this fantastic book that I cannot recommend strongly enough:
https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697

This is written by Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff who has an upcoming book on the subject - https://smile.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697