@pluralistic on #surveillance #mercantilism, based on an unholy alliance between big government spying on you & big business happy to oblige for the sake of its #monopoly: https://theintercept.com/2023/10/16/surveillance-state-big-tech/ Outside the USA, in countries like Italy, the surveillance mercantilism takes the face a of surveillance #colonialism
Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another
The American surveillance state is a public-private partnership, writes Cory Doctorow.Cory Doctorow (The Intercept)
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