okay okay, maybe i need to say a bit more about this. basically - surveillance capitalism is bad, and the platform economy that is increasingly dominant is bad new. BUT i don't think data is labour. maybe I'm wrong though?!?
undoubtedly, companies and even states can exert control through their access to and even ownership of our data, but are we 'enslaved' by this? i think it certainly can become dangerous + limiting, but not sure the rhetoric of slavery is right, and 'labour' certainly feels wrong
@eevb The rhetoric of slavery, on the other hand, is spot on because what we are talking about is loss of personhood. We’re talking about the violation of the encapsulation of the self. So slavery not due to forced labour but due to ownership of the person and the person becoming property yet again.
In case you haven’t seen them, a few posts I wrote on the subject:
https://2018.ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-self-in-the-digital-age/
https://2018.ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/
https://2018.ar.al/notes/we-didnt-lose-control-it-was-stolen/
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