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"content": "(Data) capitalism<br/><br/>What does the business model based on the exploitation of people's data (inherent to capitalism and its mercantilist nature) make us, the users, into?<br/><br/>If we work for free producing data that is then used to generate profits for them, if we have almost no control over how the data we produce is used and if we depend on the products of these companies to access services, work and participate socially, then we're talking about exploitation, lack of control over the means of production and dependency. In short, digital proletariat.<br/><br/>Instead of performing physical labor in the production of goods as in the traditional way, our work is more abstract, we produce data, we don't physically perceive that they're taking something from us, but that's what they do.<br/><br/>They're not the industrial capitalists of the 19th century, but they're the owners of the means of production which are the platforms, the technological structures and the algorithms. And like those, they also want us to spend more time producing. But unlike the proletariat of those times, the digital proletariat doesn't have much of an idea of what's going on, much less anything resembling a “class consciousness” that would allow them to organize to bring about change in the system.<br/><br/>They violate our privacy, manipulate us, misinform us, damage our mental health and on top of that they have the legal and political scaffolding that allows them to do so. Because (and this is the worst part) they don't hide that they collect our data nor what they do with it. Everything is in their terms of services, which are extensive, complex to understand for the majority and changeable. They put us in an asymmetric power relationship. But it's all there, written down. And we don't read them.<br/><br/>The question is then what brings us to this level of collective inaction?<br/><br/><a class=\"hashtag\" data-tag=\"capitalism\" href=\"https://fe.disroot.org/tag/capitalism\" rel=\"tag ugc\">#capitalism</a> <a class=\"hashtag\" data-tag=\"data\" href=\"https://fe.disroot.org/tag/data\" rel=\"tag ugc\">#data</a> <a class=\"hashtag\" data-tag=\"proletariat\" href=\"https://fe.disroot.org/tag/proletariat\" rel=\"tag ugc\">#proletariat</a> <a class=\"hashtag\" data-tag=\"reflections\" href=\"https://fe.disroot.org/tag/reflections\" rel=\"tag ugc\">#reflections</a>",
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