[PODCAST] #TechPolicyPress “How To Get Paid to Polarize on TikTok”
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This is an incredible interview, with two very brave civil rights monitors. Reporting on what communities in Minneapolis have experiencing at the hands of masked ICE thugs, and the surveillance tech being deployed by ICE in "Operation Metro Surge”;

https://techpolicy.press/ai-surveillance-and-the-siege-of-minneapolis

This is why I've started talking about technofascism. Because the historical parallels are chilling, and the role of corporate tech platforms and their collaborator owners is undeniable.

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"... the massive amount of money - billions and trillions of dollars - that as [Alejandra Montoya-Boyer] said ... could be going in to supporting our communities. People are getting obscenely wealthy from surveiling us."

#IrnaLandrum, 2026

https://techpolicy.press/ai-surveillance-and-the-siege-of-minneapolis

It wasn't Mussolini, but someone wrote; fascism should more rightly be called corporatism; it's the merger of state and corporate power. In this case, their' tech power.

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"... [The] problem with the 'smart home', in the context of the law of the home, is that the data ... doesn't stay in the home. If it ... was all localised there, police would ... at least need a warrant to get into that privileged space of the home."

#AndrewGuthrieFerguson, Professor, Washington University Law School, 2026

https://techpolicy.press/how-to-apply-the-tyrant-test-to-technology

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Most countries still lack any legal framework to govern how platforms are built, how they influence behavior, or how they shape public discourse and wellbeing. And often, there is real concern over ways in which giving governments more say over digital platforms can lead to censorship and otherwise threaten freedom of expression.

But an emerging global consensus may offer a path forward. Regulators and experts are beginning to recognize what research confirms: that online harms are not just caused by “bad users” or “bad content.” They are the predictable outcomes of platform designs optimized for attention, engagement, and data extraction.

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Listening to an interview with folks from Data and Society on the Sunday Show, a podcast of Tech Policy Press;

https://techpolicy.press/interrogating-tech-power-and-democratic-crisis

They mention the "network state", which I'd never heard of.

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