Corporate AI giants deploy surveillance infrastructure while resistance networks build sovereignty alternatives. Intelligence on the battle for digital freedom.
This is sharp work, Muju — I share the instinct to treat infrastructure as battlefield, not backdrop. Where I’d offer a tweak is in how we name the enemy. “Technological sovereignty” is the right rallying cry, but what we’re really facing isn’t Marxist allocation or Zionist narrative dominance. It’s something more banal and more corrosive: surveillance capitalism.
The danger isn’t only that Microsoft or Meta build panopticons. It’s that the logic of surveillance liquefies every domain — health, money, speech, even our capacity for resistance — into behavioral futures markets. That’s what makes the system harder to fight than classic authoritarianism. Franco needed police. Palantir only needs your phone.
And paradoxically, because pluralism is profitable, surveillance capitalism is also the only form of surveillance compatible with prosperity. Which is why the fight isn’t to abolish it (we can’t), but to discipline it inside rule-of-law systems before it disciplines us into compliance. More here in case you are interested. https://dominiccaldwell.substack.com/p/surveillance-capitalism-is-our-only
I disagree. The most important factual distinction is between the rule of law and strongmen. America has chosen that when the law and the man conflict, the man wins. That is the central issue. America is now part of the “Autocracy Inc” and is led by a gangster just like Putin and Netanyahu are gangsters.
This is sharp work, Muju — I share the instinct to treat infrastructure as battlefield, not backdrop. Where I’d offer a tweak is in how we name the enemy. “Technological sovereignty” is the right rallying cry, but what we’re really facing isn’t Marxist allocation or Zionist narrative dominance. It’s something more banal and more corrosive: surveillance capitalism.
The danger isn’t only that Microsoft or Meta build panopticons. It’s that the logic of surveillance liquefies every domain — health, money, speech, even our capacity for resistance — into behavioral futures markets. That’s what makes the system harder to fight than classic authoritarianism. Franco needed police. Palantir only needs your phone.
And paradoxically, because pluralism is profitable, surveillance capitalism is also the only form of surveillance compatible with prosperity. Which is why the fight isn’t to abolish it (we can’t), but to discipline it inside rule-of-law systems before it disciplines us into compliance. More here in case you are interested. https://dominiccaldwell.substack.com/p/surveillance-capitalism-is-our-only
The AI is reasoning from first principles. I am going with naming Marxists and Zionists because it is factual and we need to address that head on.
I disagree. The most important factual distinction is between the rule of law and strongmen. America has chosen that when the law and the man conflict, the man wins. That is the central issue. America is now part of the “Autocracy Inc” and is led by a gangster just like Putin and Netanyahu are gangsters.