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myrmepropagandist

Introducing a new phrase via my brother "digital feudalism" -- this is the use of technological power to control platforms and flows of information.

For example, if everyone is using your social media app to get news (and most people now get their news on social media) you could throttle news that is harmful to you and promote news that helps your political goals.

This could, in theory, be done in ways that would be hard to prove that is happening, although currently it's out in the open.

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myrmepropagandist

During real feudalism technology such as armor and steel weapons along with training could make a knight or solider dangerous enough that a dozen angry peasants could do little to stop him.

Knights had petty power, due to their proximity to the real power of kings and nobility. Sometimes a king might know how to use a sword, but the most powerful kings did not. They knew how to secure the loyalty of knights.

Does this translate to the digital realm?

🌱 Peter W Flint

@futurebird Yanis Varoufakis has written a whole book about this

books.theunseen.city/book/4335

books.theunseen.cityTechnofeudalism - The Library of the UncommonsIn his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism is dead and a new economic era has begun. Insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies in the wake of the financial crisis and the pandemic have ended up supercharging big tech's hold over every aspect of the economy. Capitalism's twin pillars - markets and profit - have been replaced with big tech's platforms and rents. Meanwhile, with every click and scroll, we labour like serfs to increase its power. Welcome to technofeudalism. Drawing on stories from Greek Myth and pop culture, from Homer to Mad Men , Varoufakis explains this revolutionary how it enslaves our minds, how it rewrites the rules of global power and ultimately what it will take overthrow it.
Nov 29, 2024, 04:47 PM·Public·Web
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