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Grossly Unethical Experiments

But the Whistleblowers are watching Big Brother.

The Cambridge Analytica revelations this week is enough to make you delete your Facebook profile, and go back to living life in full HD 3D reality.
If it were not for the amazing work of journalist Carole Cadwalladr (profile here)
who has been like a bloodhound on this, the Cambridge Analytica story might have gone away by now. Indeed, just when she felt the story was losing traction, along comes this young dude with the pink hair who has the documents.
The Guardian (still sold in hard copy), sets up the interview and again we see that good journalism, a whistle-blower with documents and a willing publisher are a deadly combination.

However, we do have to question everything we’re reading.

Essentially what Cambridge Analytica has revealed is that Politically motivated people are now using the same practices modern digital marketers use, but this time it’s on steroids.
We kind of knew that marketing IS a con job, invented by psychiatrists. To explore that theme further and to get an intro to Edward Bernays, we recommend Adam Curtis’s BBC doc, THE CENTURY OF THE SELF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
Click to watch all hour long parts.

The ABC’s THE GRUEN TRANSFER has told us over and over: Buyer Beware!

And this Cambridge Analytica story takes it to a whole new level. The digital age promised a liberation of knowledge.
Just read the opening lines of John Perry Barlow’s “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”

“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.”
Read the full text (here)

Barlow dashed off the whole thing late one night, drunk, after listening to the ignorant speeches by world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1996. It takes real dreamers like Barlow, r ecently deceased And whistle-blowers to wake us up to what a U turn the digital world has taken, away from Barlow’s vision, instead careening towards ‘Big Brother’.

So, where is the moral compass? What integrity have we got left when business and politics combine to turn surveillance and manipulation into tools that can swing elections?

Who knew that Facebook isn’t a community, it’s a weapon!

“Our data is out there. Not only is our data out there, but it’s already been used in incredibly negative and damaging ways. You can’t untie that knot.”

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Here at Antidote we believe the knot can be untied and we celebrate the incredible, seriously brave work of journalists, whistle-blowers and publishers (and dreamers) fighting back. Without them, where would we be? George Orwell, if he were alive, would endorse some of the films we can show you on these subjects:

See the man and the actions that inspired Edward Snowden in The Most Dangerous Man in America. Daniel Ellsberg worked non-stop for months PHOTOCOPYING thousands of documents that formed ‘The Pentagon Papers’. The story was retold in cinemas as the film ‘The Post’, yet here is all the facts that Spielberg didn’t share with you.