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While reading civil disobedience and other unpopular ideas I kept noticing how dated the analysis was. Things that were not possible then are possible now only we have mostly, willingly, given up our freedom to corporations for free software

Reading Themes

1. Business severity forces
2. Hacker Youths
3. Government blocking information access
4. Hidden power dynamics
5. Inability to effectively protest in physical space due to a globalized and online workforce limits the ability to exact an economic toll from that occupation of spaces
6. Disparate laws govern online / offline actions
7. All civil disobedience (CD or ECD) equates to occupation and blockages



Page 14 The idea of a police force created by corporations has happened and will happen. Pepsi/Coco-cola wars in Latin America and India show what a militarized force can achieve in the name of industry and progress. The reading mentions this phenomenon in the context of an entity trying to” keep their things and punish those that would take them” reasoning. However, Amazon is known for union/labor busting actions, threats, and in some cases off-loading their policing to local mercenaries who intimidate the local population with threats of violence and coercion. Their data and collection tracking arm of security is enough to cast doubt about their workforce and customers rights being upheld. They use predictive modeling to deter rather than awaiting criminality, a guilty until proven innocent tactic.




Insights

This is an interesting read but it ignores the need for a permissible level of cyber crime in order to keep interest in those interested in operational security into a workforce pipeline for those corporations. Bug bounty programs where hackers are crowdsourced to expose critical vulnerabilities for money is a mainstay of the tech-focused industry. As the enshitification of the educational system continues private business has stepped in to cover the widening skill gap, oftentimes for free, between required skills in industry and those taught within schools. This also means that the industry that relies on hacker mentality or security expertise have had to widen their search to include those within counterculture. Most famously the NSA widening their strict drug policy to allow applicants who have enjoyed cannabis within the last 5 years to apply, where before they were disqualified from applying.

When tech and learning tech was rebranded as an achievable level of cool to the middle class, businesses changed their recruiting tactics. Open source software, hackathons, bug bounties, and even lock picking competitions are common in the industry. These things further subvert the ability to leverage meaningful technological revolution because of the software dependency model. Though the federated universe exists it's an issue with too many programs and a lower user base than other widely known social, business, and tech platforms.

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