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tags: [ecopolsoc, internet, surveillance-capitalism]
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created: Monday, January 20, 2025
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# c9d7492f_requerimiento
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Zuboff likens the expropriation of private information by surveillance
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capitalists to the behaviour of the Conquistadores when they first arrived in
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South America.
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In order to legitimise their actions they were obliged to inform the native
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inhabitants of their intentions and tell them that they were now subordinate to
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the Spanish crown.
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This provided supposed justification for the violence and brutality that would
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follow if the natives did not comply. Sometimes the declaration would just be
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muttered moments before attack.
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"Conquest by declaration" is also the technique of Google, she claims. The
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equivalent of the _requerimiento_ being the opaque and incomprehensible terms of
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of service, _designed_ not to be read.
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_These twenty-first-century invaders do not ask permission; the forge ahead,
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papering the scorched earth with faux-legitimation practices. Instead of
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cynically conveyed monarchical edicts, they offer cynically conveyed
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terms-of-service agreements whose stipulations are just as obscured and
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incomprehensible. They build their fortifications, fiercely defending their
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claimed territories, while gathering strength for the next incursion.
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Eventually, they build their towns in intricate ecosystems of commerce, politics
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and culture that declare the legitimacy and inevitability of all that they have
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accomplished._
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_The Age of Surveillance Capitalism_ (2019): 179
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