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Ad-tech is fascist tech

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Re: Ad-tech is fascist tech

#3
"...Google execs all work for their shareholders, in a psychotic "market system" in which the myth of "fiduciary duty" is said to require companies to hurt us right up to the point where the harms they inflict on the world cost them more than the additional profits those harms deliver"

Nailed it.

Re: Ad-tech is fascist tech

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> "unless your definition of fascism is just a thing you don't like"

I think online at least, this has become fairly normal for many of the most charged words/accusations/charges.

The problem with doing this, of course, is that when the word is needed for something it actually represents, you run the risk of people thinking you're talking about something mundane.

Re: Ad-tech is fascist tech

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> Fascism, at least as the Nazi's defined and implemented it, is the belief that a socialist economy will work when the people have a similar genetic likeness.

Wrong. You can read Umberto Eco's essay "Ur-Fascism" to have a more informed view.

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