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Surveillance Capitalism Scenario
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Surveillance Capitalism Scenario** This is a link scenario that I found for the concept of surveillance capitalism which is very similar to (it is basically) cybernetics + securitization The link has two large stages?. The first is that the securitization of threats is used to justify the use of surveillance, as was the case with the war on terror The second stage says that the US, by expanding the technosphere through the aff and also securitization as mentioned above, inevitably takes tech from companies, allowing those companies to access the surveillance data that they gain, therefore causing Surveillance Capitalism The reason why capitalism is important in this process is because capitalism is what drives companies and the government to 1 - buy and sell data representing futuristic probabilistic human behavior 2 - want to gain a competitive edge on other nations and agents, making them actively check other states using surveillance 3 - use surveillance target anti-capitalist agents which prevents beneficial change BUT if you wanted to use it for another file, I am pretty sure that it would still work fine with a bit of re-formatting Sorry for the bad explanation but that should have everything I had in mind while organizing these links/impacts - Spark Also, if anyone who is cutting cybernetic cards needs a good source, the text Surveillance Capitalism and Crisis and Privacy and Data Protection: Solving or Reproducing the Democratic Crisis of the Neoliberal Capitalism? seemed to have a lot of good stuff. Information awareness and its justification is a vehicle for capitalism. Companies use their intel and data to shut down capitalist opposition.Van der Pijl ’18 [Kees; January; Chair of International Relations and the University of Sussex, Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy (CGPE), President of the Committee of Vigilance against Resurgent Facism; Surveillance Capitalism and Crisis; “Introduction,” p. 6] SPark The Post-Cold War, global intelligence infrastructure that grew out of it was then applied to a key problem big capital faced after the collapse of the USSR triggered a global restructuring of production: the existence of a billion-size surplus population, a reserve army of labour for which no employment was to be expected. This required devising control strategies of various types. After 9/11, the NeoCons revived the War on Terror concept to stir and then repress segments of this vast reserve army of labour, developing the notion of Total Information Awareness to allow it to know in advance, not just the intentions of rival states ranged against the West or just insufficiently submissive, but more particularly, the potential systemic opposition to capitalism at home and abroad. Using double agent tactics as well as provocation and targeted assassination, this has created the condition of endless war and a politics of fear sustaining it. Politics and society today operate under a permanent state of exception in which the Internet has been turned into a vast search engine on the lookout for meaningful opposition. Meanwhile in the name of weeding out ‘fake news’, the big Internet companies such as Google have changed their algorithms to prevent Left websites from popping up in searches by the public: the World Socialist Website, Global Research, and others, have already experienced sharp declines in numbers of visitors (Tveten 2018: 22). Facebook takes orders from the United States and Israeli governments to remove accounts (Greenwald 2017). Why do these large Internet companies collaborate, and why do they collaborate with these two governments specifically? That is what I intend the clarify in the pages that follow. Download 2.09 Mb. Share with your friends:
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