From a dawn of the public internet and the world wide web in the mid-1990s, the liberal democracies failed to construct a coherent political vision of a digital century that such democratic values, principles, and government. This is left a higher where democracy should be, a mark that was quickly clicked and tenaciously defended by surveillance capitalism. A handful of companies evolved from tiny startups into trillion-dollar vertically integrated model surveillance empires thriving on an economic benefits so novel and improbable, as to have escaped critical analysis for many years: the commodification of human behavior.

– Shoshana “Surveillance

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