Awareness is not sufficient to overcome a well financed organized business enterprise. So, I disagree.
Awareness is what is missing now in order to do anything substantial.
The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism
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#12Awareness is the first step, but very far from the final one. (I am sure the author knows this, but worth reiterating.) Surveillance Capitalism is fueled by large institutions with vast depths of wealth and implemented by world-class supercomputers and algorithms. Fighting surveillance capitalism by individual action is like fighting climate change by drinking through paper straws and bringing totebags to the superma…
Which is why we need to support https://eff.org and https://edri.org
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#13I am intrigued by the header, and it seems like this has some good points. However, I'm struggling to parse this content. There's a full image in between almost every sentence. In most cases, I don't find the image adds significantly to the point of the preceding or following sentence, so it just looks like filler for colour. I could put this into an AI but then what's the point of the article in the first place?
> what's the point of the article in the first place
Jump to the end, to the summary.
The position of the submitted is that there would be psychological constraints in that certain type of population that inhibit the perception of risk.
And he seems to be wanting to trying to built it up as a creeping subconscious notion through a "story", instead of going "TL;DR" (which is part of facts and of a different "psychology") and clarifying the points immediately.
He believes that that would be the way to deal with the non-adults.
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#14Awareness is not sufficient to overcome a well financed organized business enterprise. So, I disagree.
Awareness is what is missing now in order to do anything substantial.
> what is missing now
Unfortunately what is missing (in the large part of the population) is the perception of Dignity, and the unawareness of the consciousness of their action (people are accepting and feeding the machine).
It is not just the awareness of the historic context that is missing: it is the awareness that what was built is bad, and that that they are partially to blame in every act of acceptance and omission in stating the "red lines".
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#15I think the argument would be more persuasive if it stayed closer to things people can verify themselves
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#16It's interesting, but it sounds more like a political/societal theory rather than actual events or state of the society. It would be much more interesting and largely shareable if it contained more documented facts rather than generic affirmations.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Awareness is what is missing now in order to do anything substantial.
> what is missing now Unfortunately what is missing (in the large part of the population) is the perception of Dignity, and the unawareness of the consciousness of their action (people are accepting and feeding the machine). It is not just the awareness of the historic context that is missing: it is the awareness that what was built is bad, and that that they are partially to blame in every act of acceptance and omis…
A better awareness of human rights would go a long way to solving the conditions which make surveillance capitalism profitable.
Folks only accept these heinous abrogations of their human rights because they don't understand human rights.
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#18Awareness is not sufficient to overcome a well financed organized business enterprise. So, I disagree.
Awareness is what is missing now in order to do anything substantial.
No, it's incentive. Always has been. Always will be.
Awareness may (or may not) help with incentive, but by itself it does jack all, as any nerds that have been actively showing their relatives how they are tracked will tell you.
Snowden's revelations did diddlely jack for the common person, nor wikileak's. Knowing smoking is bad never prevented smokers to smoke, knowing exercice is good is not enough to make somebody do it.
You need more: social pressure, conformism, dopamine, lower friction, etc.
Safety belt didn't become common because the average person were aware of the benefits. People screamed about it, complained, refused to use them.
It's the push from insurances to get them into law that turned into car manufacturer making it a feature, cops giving away fines, and social contracts pressuring you into using them that made them ubiquitous.
The myth that awareness is what is missing is one of the reasons so many topic never move because it's talking on the internet about it is easier than doing something about it. So people choose awareness as the virtue signaling easy way out of their guilt.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Awareness is what is missing now in order to do anything substantial.
There is also courage. You know if you are caught angle-grinding a Flock pole, your life ends there.
Your life doesn't end. Your perception of your life along this current trajectory and within this current system could end, but it could start you on another much more powerful path. I don't just mean this in relation to flock camera's but rather direct action.