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by jazzyjackson 268 days ago
That's your opinion and that's fine but surveillance capitalism is not a freshly minted term - it simply supposes that the behavioral data collected on all of us is a new form of capital to be accumulated, exploited, and hoarded
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Yes, that I agree with .. but it’s still a pointless term crafted more for optics than substance. It doesn’t really add clarity, it just feels like linguistic inflation. Same vibe as when people say “weaponisation” to inject drama and a false sense of danger