Investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr said, to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, "I think what is happening in America is they are building a #TechnoAuthoritarian #surveillance #state.โ€ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7CvbccdVM .
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"Both for #datagovernance and #standards, what matters is #structuralpower. If you have it, you can meaningfully steer both, if you don't, you can't. I am not claiming that discussing these topics today isn't useful, it can be, but hoping that they will have transformative impact without access to structural power is wishful thinking.

The #urgency created by the #technoauthoritarian alignment between #BigTech and the #Trumpregime is the driving priority: first, reclaim structural power. Once that's done, we can debate the rest."
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