My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.

With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.

ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-peop…

It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.

(Don’t hold your breaths.)

#carelessPeople #facebook #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #USA #fascism #technofascism #EU #Ireland #tax #GDPR #tech #humanRights #democracy

Careless people

Notes from “Careless People: A story of where I used to work: Power. Greed. Madness.” by Sarah-Wynn Williams

^{Aral Balkan}

@thevril @pluralistic @kino

#SurveillanceState

👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈

#FightTechnofeudalism

(4/n)

....value anymore.👈 The future of #Matrix always seems somehow, em.. unconfirmed? An interesting project. I wonder where it will go. There's been a LOT of #VC [#VentureCapital] funding up to now, one might assume some return is expected at some point. Maybe not though. I've run #Jabber servers in the past,...

The Camera Panopticon

How did we end up in technofascism? Watch this talk I gave over a decade ago warning of the dangers of Silicon Valley and Big Tech and urging us to embrace alternatives.

small-tech.org/videos/the-came…

(Transcript available in English, Español, and Nederlands, thanks to the community.)

#technofascism #BigTech #SiliconValley #startups #InternetOfThings #ventureCapital #web #decentralisation #ethicalDesign #design #diversity #inclusion #accessibility #FOSS #Zuckerberg #tech #society #USA #fascism #EU #theCameraPanopticon

The Camera Panopticon

Aral at The Big Brother Awards in Amsterdam, Netherlands. November 2014.

^{Small Technology Foundation}