Awareness is helpfull, but becoming habitualy non partisipatory by turning java script, cookies, and DOM storage off is also good. flip the script, and default to a system where seeing or going further requires real work, like copy and pasteing a url, and opening it in an alternative browser that may, possibly, show the paywall.
or for realy tedious stuff, install an up to date "all in" browser for a specific task, and then un install it, which for me is always a shock, to see what a jiggling mess of horror the "real" net looks like, which unfortunatly a small but significantly dedicated bunch of seriously fucked up people are emulating on the street, for which I am bieng hired to physicaly deter and disuade with strategicly placed metal screens, guards,gates and barriors.
So in my world the whole adversurvailence aparatus is comming full circle, providing
leads through an internet I dont see, to deal with the results that everybody has no option not too.
The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism
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Re: The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism
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Indeed. Vital to the solution yes, but if it was all that was needed then the surveillance systems would have been dismantled and prevented each time enough people became aware. The fact that we are here now is it’s own evidence
I'm the author of the presentation. When I was designing this talk, the end game I had in mind is to have a starting point. I think bringing more awareness to the depth of the problem and some behaviors we can change can start us down the road is good enough to get the ball rolling. I don't think this is going to be solved in one generation.
A multi generational ball rolling exercise is not going to dent a surveillance state or economy.
Your starting point has, afaict, been made many times before by equally sincere people.
What is needed are effective actions to make major advances right now, in your generation.
Other countries have great privacy laws. Why don't we?
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"Human rights" is a binary abstraction over nonbinary human needs (needs aren't binary because sometimes you need some amount of water and sometimes you don't need any...but you may be fully hydrated while needing to clean a wound; that's just one example). Being stuck in binary thinking means being stuck in a mental model that can never accurately portray the world, despite rampant evidence the model doesn't work. B…
I care not one iota for the opinion of someone who degrades human rights, which are universal and apply to you - and me - equally, whether you agree or not.
It's interesting to care so little about human needs and rights you won't critically think about either in this context.
Rights matter because they're a concept that people enforce with violence, such as refusing to critically engage in things marginalized people say are issues, like how rights are really just privileges given to us by governments.
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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…
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I care not one iota for the opinion of someone who degrades human rights, which are universal and apply to you - and me - equally, whether you agree or not.
It's interesting to care so little about human needs and rights you won't critically think about either in this context. Rights matter because they're a concept that people enforce with violence, such as refusing to critically engage in things marginalized people say are issues, like how rights are really just privileges given to us by governments.
No, rights matter because they are universally agreed upon by all nations who are signatories to the UDHR and they specifically do not depend on government.
I'm not surprised this point isn't obvious to you, given your position that "violence is necessary".