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https://surveillancecapitalism.com/
"Surveillance Capitalism is the manifestation of George Orwell's prophesied Memory Hole combined with the constant surveillance, storage and analysis of our thoughts and actions with such minute precision, and artificial intelligence algorithmic analysis, that our future thoughts and actions can be predicted and manipulated for the concentration of power and wealth of the very few. These 31 citations barely scratch the surface of Surveillance Capitalism and yet provide a terrifying display of the powerful forces arrayed against democracy. Surveillance Capitalism desensitizes us to their destruction of individual autonomy, rights, freedom of thought and action, privacy, sovereignty, thoughtful analysis and memory while demanding and ensuring corporations, and the 1%, have absolute rights, privacy and impunity."
"Surveillance Capitalism relies on the 24 hour news cycle overwhelming our capacity to consider their manipulations before they are quickly buried and forgotten in the Memory Hole."
Persuasive technology - employing mental health 'experts' to help design methods of using the internet to change and manipulate the way humans think and act. Father of this is B.J. Fogg at Stanford
http://captology.stanford.edu/about/about-bj-fogg.html
"Dr. BJ Fogg directs the Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford University. A psychologist and innovator, he devotes half of his time to industry projects. His work empowers people to think clearly about the psychology of persuasion — and then to convert those insights into real-world outcomes."
"BJ has created a new model of human behavior change, which guides research and design. Drawing on these principles, his students created Facebook Apps that motivated over 16 million user installations in 10 weeks."
Fogg developed an entire field of study based on research proving that by using some simple techniques tech can manipulate human behavior. This is the basics of what tech companies such as Fakebook are using to sell advertising.
Fakebook showed advertisers how it has the capacity to identify when teenagers feel insecure, worthless, or need a confidence boost. Instead of merely offering advertisers the ability to target people based on demographics and consumer preferences, Facebook offers the ability to target them based on how they will behave, what they will buy, and what they will think.
What else will this application do? Perhaps refer users for mental health evaluations, red flag notifications?
https://www.scribd.com/article/399046918/In-The-Grasp-Of-Big-Tech
"Mark Zuckerberg ushered in the new year pledging to address the many woes that now plague his company by “making sure people have control of their information,” and “ensuring our services improve people’s well-being.”
As much as we may want to believe him, Zuckerberg’s sudden turn toward accountability is impossible to take seriously. The problems Zuckerberg cited, including “election interference” and “hate speech and misinformation,” are by-products of the features of social networks, not bugs."
IMO Q is also using this to fight the derpstate.
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