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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 646 – “Big Tech Needs A Conscience”
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Guest speaker: Corey Doctorow
Corey Doctorow
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Date this lecture was recorded: August 2019
[NOTE: All quotations are by Corey Doctorow.]
"What like-buttons mainly do is collect data about you."
"If you know something about people, you can lie to them better"
"In a walled-garden that's what it's all about. It's not about spying on you. It's about locking you in and charging you extra."
"Amazon is basically pursuing a strategy to turn themselves into a part of the state, into an arm of law enforcement [by providing doorbell camera footage to the police]."
"We'll...