Finished reading: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow 📚.
In which the author argues that the multitude of problems and dangers associated with the ‘big tech’ surveillance companies are not so much to do with their ability to weaponise all our personal data they suck up against us. Mainly because they’re actually a lot worse at leveraging it to manipulate us than they think they are.
Rather, their detrimental impact relates more to abusive behaviours they are free to perpetuate by virtue of effectively being rich and powerful monopolies.