Just as importantly: we have to stop amplifying tech bosses’ chosen narratives about their products’ destructive potential, because this helps them raise more money and do more terrible things. Bernie Sanders needs to stop insisting that the US government should own 50% of the money-losingest corporations the world has ever seen and start talking about how they will not get a government bailout when their investment bubble bursts.
The perfect time to be a fascist government would be if you could process unbelievable amounts of surveillance data with cold calculating detachment while also heavily undermining worker power.
But what kind of disruptive technology could do all that…
a few routers and an automatic ai snitch