“Unlike old authoritarianism built on fear and force, this new system rules through code, capital, and infrastructure — making resistance feel architecturally impossible.”
#cyberlibertarianism #technoauthoritarianism
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info
Thx @14prinsp
"Where Trump’s first administration was defined by a generally symbiotic but tenuous relationship with #BigTech, the second would be, from the jump, a rancid union of #SiliconValley ideology and fascist impulse. [...]
"In many ways, the shameless about-face comes as the culmination of the #tech world’s open embrace of self-advancing cynicism in recent years."
https://thebaffler.com/latest/e-pluribus-uh-oh-kim
#USpol #AI #SiliconValleyRight #technoauthoritarianism #techFutures
The Long Arc of #Fascism Teach-in | Panel 2: Fascism as Capitalist Counter Revolution
"[T]he second panel turned to the present, mapping how fascism re-emerges as a reactionary force defending #racialCapitalism and elite rule against emancipatory movements."
w/ Brenna Bhandar, Avery Everhart, Gastón Gordillo, Alberto Toscano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCK1yNFv5bE
#LateFascism #FarRight #NewRight #Palantir #BigTech #tech #SiliconValleyRight #technoauthoritarianism #politicalTheory
Good overview RT @Wtebbens: "The Accelerated Construction of Techno-Authoritarian Infrastructure"
This is the first in a series of articles examining BigTech’s threats to democratic society and exploring pathways forward.
https://freeknowledge.eu/accelerated-construction-techno-authoritarian-infra
#ExtremeRight #BigTech #GAFAM #DigitalCoup #TechnoAuthoritarianism #Collapse #Resistance
"The Accelerated Construction of Techno-Authoritarian Infrastructure"
This is the first in a series of articles examining BigTech’s threats to democratic society and exploring pathways forward.
https://freeknowledge.eu/accelerated-construction-techno-authoritarian-infra
#ExtremeRight #BigTech #GAFAM #DigitalCoup #TechnoAuthoritarianism #Collapse #Resistance
"Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.
This is a bad, bad step for Ring and the broader public.
Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States. This is a grave threat to civil liberties in the United States. After all, police have used Ring footage to spy on protestors, and obtained footage without a warrant or consent of the user. It is easy to imagine that law enforcement officials will use their renewed access to Ring information to find people who have had abortions or track down people for immigration enforcement."
#USA #Amazon #Ring #TechnoAuthoritarianism #MassSurveillance #Privacy #PoliceState
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to...
“It harvests our data in order to sell us stuff.
We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism.”
“We now are in techno-authoritarianism.
We have to learn how to digitally disobey.
That can be as simple as the dropdown box. Don't accept the cookies, don't give your real name”
More on the "do something" front (I'm referring here to /3):
Marcy Wheeler notes how town-hall meetings have Republican legislators back on their heels now, and demonstrate that we can, indeed, do something to push back. She says,
"This kind of politics is not sufficient to reverse the fascist trend in America, but it is an irreplaceable part of any effort to try."
#Musk #Trump #broligarchy #SiliconValley #technoauthoritarianism #surveillance #fascism
/4
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/23/no-kings-around-the-partisan-bend-on-doge-sic-and-ukraine/
A bunch of contentious town halls in heavily Republican congressional districts this week are a kind of politics that Democrats have too often eschewed in recent years as consultants told candidates that they couldn't swing voters in culturally conservative areas. This kind of politics is not sufficient to reverse the fascist trend in America, but it is an irreplaceable part of any effort to try.
"This week represents a hinge of history. Everything has changed. America and Russia are now allies. Ukraine has been thrown to the dogs. Europe’s security hangs in the balance. On the one hand, there’s nothing any of us can do. On the other, we have to do something."
On the "do something" front, see Cadwalladr's valuable suggestions from Nov. 2017, republished here — and listen to her podcast.
#Musk #Trump #broligarchy #SiliconValley #technoauthoritarianism #surveillance #fascism
/3
"This is technoauthoritarianism. It’s tyranny + surveillance tools. It’s the merger of Silicon Valley companies with state power. It’s the ‘broligarchy’, a concept I coined in July last year though I’ve been contemplating it for a lot longer."
#Musk #Trump #broligarchy #SiliconValley #technoauthoritarianism #surveillance #fascism
/2
Felicitas Macgilchrist
Paria sans portefeuille
Thomas
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
Miguel Afonso Caetano
f*cking b*tch club
William Lindsey 