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neuron/04bec0de-8b09-4523-818a-82f4a1387c58/4dec6fe0_shadow_text.md

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+---
+tags: [ecopolsoc, internet, surveillance-capitalism]
+created: Monday, January 20, 2025
+---
+
+# 4dec6fe0_shadow_text
+
+Surveillance capitalism creates two "electronic texts". The first is the
+public-facing text which consists in the benefits conferred by the surveillance
+capitalists' services, expressed in their self-regarding mission statements. The
+"universe of information and connection [they] bring to our fingertips" (posts,
+blogs, likes, photos, spreadsheets, music, tweets etc).
+
+The first text is a sort of Trojan Horse, serving as the "supply operation" for
+the second, _shadow_ text. Everything we contribute to the first text becomes a
+target for surplus extraction via the shadow text. This is the ultimate purpose
+of the services and is hidden from view and only for the purview of the
+surveillance capitalists.
+
+_In this text, our experience is dragooned as raw material to be accumulated and
+analyzed as means to others' market ends. The shadow text is a burgeoning
+accumulation of behavioural surplus and its analyses, and it says more about us
+than we can know about ourselves. Worse still, it becomes increasingly
+difficult, and perhaps impossible, to refrain from contributing to the shadow
+text. It automatically feeds on our experience as we engage in the normal and
+necessary routines of social participation._
+
+_The Age of Surveillance Capitalism_ (2019): 185

neuron/04bec0de-8b09-4523-818a-82f4a1387c58/c9d7492f_requerimiento.md

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+---
+tags: [ecopolsoc, internet, surveillance-capitalism]
+created: Monday, January 20, 2025
+---
+
+# c9d7492f_requerimiento
+
+Zuboff likens the expropriation of private information by surveillance
+capitalists to the behaviour of the Conquistadores when they first arrived in
+South America.
+
+In order to legitimise their actions they were obliged to inform the native
+inhabitants of their intentions and tell them that they were no subordinates to
+the Spanish crown.
+
+This provided supposed justification for the violence and brutality that would
+follow if the natives did not comply. Sometimes the declaration would just be
+muttered moments before attack.
+
+"Conquest by declaration" is also the technique of Google, she claims. The
+equivalent of the _requerimiento_ being the opaque and incomprehensible terms of
+of service, _designed_ not to be read.
+
+_These twenty-first-century invaders do not ask permission; the forge ahead,
+papering the scorched earth with faux-legitimation practices. Instead of
+cynically conveyed monarchical edicts, they offer cynically conveyed
+terms-of-service agreements whose stipulations are just as obscured and
+incomprehensible. They build their fortifications, fiercely defending their
+claimed territories, while gathering strength for the next incursion.
+Eventually, they build their towns in intricate ecosystems of commerce, politics
+and culture that declare the legitimacy and inevitability of all that they have
+accomplished._
+
+_The Age of Surveillance Capitalism_ (2019): 179

neuron/04bec0de-8b09-4523-818a-82f4a1387c58/index.md

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 <a href="https://thomasabishop.github.io/eolas/tags">View tags</a>
  
-**Build ID:** 84bce166-ed13-454f-aa4b-b278e38fda7b
+**Build ID:** 04bec0de-8b09-4523-818a-82f4a1387c58
 
-**Published:** Sun 19 Jan 2025 18:00:55
+**Published:** Mon 20 Jan 2025 18:28:50
 
 ### Recent edits 
 
+- [[4dec6fe0_shadow_text]] 
+- [[c9d7492f_requerimiento]] 
 - [[Compile_Python_app_to_single_executable]] 
 - [[Sorting_lists_in_Python]] 
 - [[Algebra_key_terms]] 
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 - [[IP_addresses]] 
 - [[View_IP_addresses]] 
 - [[747589ad_effects_of_privacy_violation]] 
-- [[fbbfbc32-political-accommodation-inveigelment-surveillance-capitalism]] 
-- [[f6564af9_AOL_and_early_internet_enclosure]] 
 
 
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+### All notes (520) 
 
 - [[0716531c_rewilding_the_internet]] 
 - [[241fe1a3_the_Web_versus_modem_BBSs]] 
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ computer science.
 - [[3f1b9fe5_motivation_Berners_Lee]] 
 - [[4a3dc316_key_figures_ARPANET]] 
 - [[4da22434_from_ARPANET_to_Internet]] 
+- [[4dec6fe0_shadow_text]] 
 - [[653c0b1d_host_protocols_of_ARPANET]] 
 - [[738d0481_sound_recording_as_wave_phenomena]] 
 - [[747589ad_effects_of_privacy_violation]] 
@@ -536,6 +537,7 @@ computer science.
 - [[bbdcb54f_public_key_cryptography]] 
 - [[c301a0b3-1d8_Mosaic_Netscape_and_Browser_Wars]] 
 - [[c8173d17_TIMPs]] 
+- [[c9d7492f_requerimiento]] 
 - [[cfbef1c4_web_precursors]] 
 - [[e470bf3d_IMPs_in_the_ARPANET]] 
 - [[ecec56e6_precursors_to_search_engines]] 

neuron/04bec0de-8b09-4523-818a-82f4a1387c58/neuron.dhall

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 -- Documentation for neuron.dhall: https://neuron.zettel.page/configuration
-{ siteTitle = "",
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 }

zk/4dec6fe0_shadow_text.md

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+---
+tags: [ecopolsoc, internet, surveillance-capitalism]
+created: Monday, January 20, 2025
+---
+
+# 4dec6fe0_shadow_text
+
+Surveillance capitalism creates two "electronic texts". The first is the
+public-facing text which consists in the benefits conferred by the surveillance
+capitalists' services, expressed in their self-regarding mission statements. The
+"universe of information and connection [they] bring to our fingertips" (posts,
+blogs, likes, photos, spreadsheets, music, tweets etc).
+
+The first text is a sort of Trojan Horse, serving as the "supply operation" for
+the second, _shadow_ text. Everything we contribute to the first text becomes a
+target for surplus extraction via the shadow text. This is the ultimate purpose
+of the services and is hidden from view and only for the purview of the
+surveillance capitalists.
+
+_In this text, our experience is dragooned as raw material to be accumulated and
+analyzed as means to others' market ends. The shadow text is a burgeoning
+accumulation of behavioural surplus and its analyses, and it says more about us
+than we can know about ourselves. Worse still, it becomes increasingly
+difficult, and perhaps impossible, to refrain from contributing to the shadow
+text. It automatically feeds on our experience as we engage in the normal and
+necessary routines of social participation._
+
+_The Age of Surveillance Capitalism_ (2019): 185

zk/c9d7492f_requerimiento.md

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+---
+tags: [ecopolsoc, internet, surveillance-capitalism]
+created: Monday, January 20, 2025
+---
+
+# c9d7492f_requerimiento
+
+Zuboff likens the expropriation of private information by surveillance
+capitalists to the behaviour of the Conquistadores when they first arrived in
+South America.
+
+In order to legitimise their actions they were obliged to inform the native
+inhabitants of their intentions and tell them that they were no subordinates to
+the Spanish crown.
+
+This provided supposed justification for the violence and brutality that would
+follow if the natives did not comply. Sometimes the declaration would just be
+muttered moments before attack.
+
+"Conquest by declaration" is also the technique of Google, she claims. The
+equivalent of the _requerimiento_ being the opaque and incomprehensible terms of
+of service, _designed_ not to be read.
+
+_These twenty-first-century invaders do not ask permission; the forge ahead,
+papering the scorched earth with faux-legitimation practices. Instead of
+cynically conveyed monarchical edicts, they offer cynically conveyed
+terms-of-service agreements whose stipulations are just as obscured and
+incomprehensible. They build their fortifications, fiercely defending their
+claimed territories, while gathering strength for the next incursion.
+Eventually, they build their towns in intricate ecosystems of commerce, politics
+and culture that declare the legitimacy and inevitability of all that they have
+accomplished._
+
+_The Age of Surveillance Capitalism_ (2019): 179