#peoplefarming

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“My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don’t need that. We don’t need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.” – Yours truly, in @_elena@mastodon.social’s excellent expose on W Social. https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/ Do read the article to the end, especially noting the bit about the composition of their board of advisors, which includes an ex-Google AI lead and an ex-Paypal Chief [Violate Your] Privacy Officer who now works at Tools for Humanity (Sam Altman’s “Sci-fi dystopia? Hold my beer…” identity farming startup that wants to scan your eyeballs). #WSocial #EuropeWashing #PrivacyWashing #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #EU #ATProto #fediverse
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Pettet8/116742131579090788 “Google was a different company 9 years ago.” Hmm… was it, though? 🤔 https://ar.al/talks/#free-is-a-lie #google #BigTech #peopleFarming #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #meaCulpa
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Waarom ik gedwongen wordt om weg te gaan bij Google - Het Google management heeft zijn morele kompas verloren. "..Why I’m Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass.." Professor René Mayrhofer https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/
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Amazing. W (I kid you not): A bunch of VC-funded European Big Tech assholes attempting to rewrite history by erasing the federated European alternatives that already exist to create their own centralised, surveillance-ridden X clone. Same shit, different flag. And I’m sure the usual fools will flock to it the moment it’s ready. Fuck these people. #EU #bullshit #W #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming @nicolasvivant@colter.social
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Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now. Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com. They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker. To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone less safe. You dickheads are the problem. #surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarmers #adtech #peopleFarming #BigTech #IWasJustFollowingOrders #reportErrorDotCom #htmlLoadDotCom #Indiewire #Variety #RollingStone
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