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Text screengrab. It reads: "A practical illustration of how these structural differences between privatized spaces and public spaces play out in the digital domain is provided by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow in their 2022 book Chokepoint Capitalism. In it, they contrast the way Amazon extracts value from reading ebooks sold via its platform with the way public libraries protect the privacy of their patrons: “Amazon tracks the phrases we highlight, the words we Look up, who else s reading from the same address. All this allows it to deduce the most intimate information about our lives: whether we're struggling with our gender identity or sexual orientation, if we think our partner is cheating or that we might be depressed, if we're having money problems or struggling to get pregnant or considering leaving our jobs. Public libraries have some of this same information and guard it fiercely, but Amazon feeds it into an insatiable machine designed to extract maximum profit” (Page 36) "

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Text screengrab. It reads: "A practical illustration of how these structural differences between privatized spaces and public spaces play out in the digital domain is provided by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow in their 2022 book Chokepoint Capitalism. In it, they contrast the way Amazon extracts value from reading ebooks sold via its platform with the way public libraries protect the privacy of their patrons: “Amazon tracks the phrases we highlight, the words we Look up, who else s reading from the same address. All this allows it to deduce the most intimate information about our lives: whether we're struggling with our gender identity or sexual orientation, if we think our partner is cheating or that we might be depressed, if we're having money problems or struggling to get pregnant or considering leaving our jobs. Public libraries have some of this same information and guard it fiercely, but Amazon feeds it into an insatiable machine designed to extract maximum profit” (Page 36) "
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Nicol Wistreich (nicol@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 00:54:22 JST Nicol Wistreich

“Amazon tracks the phrases we highlight, the words we look up, who else is reading from the same address. All this allows it to deduce the most intimate information about our lives…Public libraries have some of this same information and guard it fiercely, but Amazon feeds it into an insatiable machine designed to extract maximum profit.”
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow @pluralistic in their 2022 book
#ChokepointCapitalism, via #DigitalPublicSpace primer by @openfuture https://openfuture.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/231024DPS_primer.pdf

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