NYTimes: The Coup We Are Not Talking About
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Dr. Sami AlBanna
Jan 30, 2021, 8:08:06 AM1/30/21
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The Coup We Are Not Talking About
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/sunday/facebook-surveillance-society-technology.html?referringSource=articleShare
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Dr. Sami AlBanna
Jan 30, 2021, 8:14:31 AM1/30/21
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Wassim Abdullah
Jan 30, 2021, 4:51:47 PM1/30/21
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Powerful article. Thanks.
We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” The statement so relevant to Brandeis’s time remains a pungent commentary on the old capitalism we know, but it ignores the new capitalism that knows us. Unless democracy revokes the license to steal and challenges the fundamental economics and operations of commercial surveillance, the epistemic coup will weaken and eventually transform democracy itself. We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have surveillance society, but we cannot have both. We have a democratic information civilization to build, and there is no time to waste.
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Wassim Abdullah
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We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” The statement so relevant to Brandeis’s time remains a pungent commentary on the old capitalism we know, but it ignores the new capitalism that knows us. Unless democracy revokes the license to steal and challenges the fundamental economics and operations of commercial surveillance, the epistemic coup will weaken and eventually transform democracy itself. We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have surveillance society, but we cannot have both. We have a democratic information civilization to build, and there is no time to waste.
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Wassim Abdullah
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Rayya Haddad
Jan 31, 2021, 9:04:26 AM1/31/21
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Thanks for that!
A nice follow-up to this article is watching the highly acclaimed documentary Social Dilemma.
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