Byung-Chul Han contended in 2018 that the digital surveillance society seduces people into building their own panopticon.

If you want to buy his book, or any book, make sure you cannot be identified as the purchaser. And don't accept an e-book if it tramples your freedom.

In a reversal of what 19th-century socialists believed, surveillance capitalists sells citizens the rope to tie themselves up in.

In 2019, Shoshana Zuboff described the system of surveillance capitalism. She explained how this new system of tyranny functions and how it developed.

But what do we do about this?

The first part of the solution is free software — we users can make sure it doesn't spy on us. But that addresses only the programs we run on our own programmable computers. To go beyond that, we need laws to prohibit systems from collecting people's personal data.

Don't fall for foolish substitutes that wouldn't fix the problem, such as the idea that "you should own your own data". People would sell the use of that data for a pittance, if they don't see a path towards truly changing the surveillance society.

*"Like a Kleptocracy": Investigation Details How [Republican] Lawmakers Cashed In on [the conman's] Tax Cuts.*

(satire) *Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated Monday that the United States has overwhelming and undeniable evidence to support going to war with whoever.*

Modi's right-wing religious nationalist party, the BJP, is trying to pass itself as the heirs of Dr Ambedkar, even though it is the enemy of everything he fought for except small details.

The BJP is a Hinduismist party (Hinduismists are to Hinduism as Islamists are to Islam). Caste prejudice is deeply rooted in Hinduism so Hinduismists cannot help perpetuating caste prejudice.

India has little traditional of liberalism — that is, championing freedom to disagree peacefully and to advocate different views.

3% of the current US military budget could pay to end starvation for human beings worldwide.