The words of the niche
The Taiwan Lianjing Publishing House is about to publish the era of American scholar Xiaosana Middot; Shoshana Zuboff, a total of two volumes of monitoring capitalism.
The surveillance capitalism criticized by Shosana is the surveillance and deprivation of data from Facebook, Google and other technology giants.She believes that Facebook and Google users have unknowingly become products of these technology giants in the past 20 years. They not only create a profitable profit for them, but also endanger their thoughts and personal freedom.
She often takes the Cambridge analysis event and the Pokemon GO as an example.The former has an impact on the last US election. Let us realize that the user's personal capital collected by the technology giant is likely to be sold to evil institutions to carry out despicable ideological brainwashing projects.The same data can also be sold to dictators to implement totalitarian rule.Elf Pokémon GO was described as a huge business experiment by Shosana, allowing users to be induced to a specific business district by the mobile game system in the process of enjoying the game and increase the flow of people.
The criticized facebook has recently launched the Off-Facebook Activity tool, allowing users to check the historical records obtained by users from third-party websites or applications.Users can choose to close it to protect personal privacy.This also shows that for a long time in the past, Facebook collected additional network footprints from other websites and applications and established huge databases for profit.
Will the situation improve?In a interview, Xiao Sana said that surveillance capitalism has raised for 20 years, but the democratic system has a history of hundreds of years, and she will put attention to democracy.Indeed, after the exposure of more and more technology giants abusing user data, the awakening of the general public will help change all this; related laws and regulations are also improving.
Politically, according to Shosana's vision, a government that does not help technology giants should be selected.But so far, the two -party presidential candidates for the United States have not put forward their own opinions, and they have paid attention to the tax issues of science and technology giants and how much employment can be created.Andrew Yang, a democratic party, has already proposed that the technology giants need to take out cash dividends to Americans.The subtext is: Instead of making you earn in vain, it is better to treat it as a transaction.
On the other hand, the crown disease epidemic has prompted many countries to increase the use of monitoring technology to prevent the spread of coronary virus.In a very time, the government has re -monitoring its legitimacy, but the problem is that when the plague is over, will the monitoring become worse?Scholar Harari recently interviewed DW News: When you increase the monitoring of the people, correspondingly, the public should also increase the supervision of the government.
Herraley believes in the power of checks and balances, but the premise is the democratic mechanism.
I think that many basic common sense must be educated early, including the concepts of science and democracy. Citizen education should not only stop the road or the road without the road or the road. It should also include what is justice, how to distinguish between true and false information, and media ethics.
In this crisis crisis, we saw that China's central centralized wrist decisively blocked the virus to spread in the country; we also saw a series of ridiculous remarks of US President Trump, in local governments, national allergies and infectious diseases, the media, etc.Under the compete of the agency, it is curbed.Imagine how Trump and Xi Jinping have changed their identities.
Shosana believes that the dictatorly monitoring politics depicted by Orwell is not as terrible as monitoring capitalism.I think they are twin brothers, the dictatorship is simple violence, and monitoring capitalism is good at disguise.
Back to the beginning of this article, Xiaosana's articles and opinions from Herraley were from Facebook to further reading.For me, as long as there is no censorship system, the facial book is still the benefits of it as a tool.The point is whether users are aware of its danger.While users protect their own interests, they should also promote its reform.Because Facebook knows that if you lose your user, it will lose everything.
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