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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 522 – “Surveillance Capitalism and the IoT”
Description: Guest speaker: Cory Doctorow
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Cory Doctorow.]
“This world of computers exists in a principle-free environment. The Internet of Things is the Internet of absolute, self-serving bullshit.”
“The Internet of Things needs principles.”
“The real struggle here, it's not making computers free, it's making people free. The reason we want to save computers is not because computers are more important than racial justice, or gender equity, or getting rid of homophobia and transphobia, or the climate. The reason we want to make computers free and open is because we cannot win those fights without a few and...