Tech CoupMarietje Schaake
Tech Coup
by Marietje Schaake · first published 2024
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You ask a great question, and I wonder how the push for more privacy will pan out (pardon the gold mining analogy). I am almost done with the very good new book The Tech Coup by Marietje Schaake, and I have also read Privacy is Power and Surveilance Capitalism. I think more of the public is waking up to the benefits of privacy. All that said, I am an enthusiastic paying customer…
on “$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst” ↗This is so stupid. I am a fan of the books Privacy is Power and The Tech Coup, both books do a great job arguing for privacy and mitigating the harm of tech giants. What should be done is having strong privacy laws, requirements for encrypting user data, 100% transparency on how…
on “DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome” ↗…than the tech industry - still an open question for me. Lock in and control by huge corporations is almost always uniformly bad. I have accepted the message of great books like Privacy is Power, The Tech Coup, and Surveillance Capitalism, and I feel pretty good about just using Google’s Gemini APIs when I need them, and lean as hard as possible on open models running on Ollama and LM Studio. There are also…
on “GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation” ↗…democratic oversight. This suggests that military AI contracts aren't just another revenue stream for tech companies - they're potentially a way to bypass democratic constraints altogether, accelerating the "tech coup" that Schaake warns about in her book. [1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/29/1106325/palmer-l...
on “How Silicon Valley is disrupting democracy” ↗…turn, continue recommending Microsoft. “There’s political pressure, but in practice, all they know is Microsoft,” the same person said. Marietje Schaake, a technology policy expert and author of The Tech Coup, said Microsoft has strategically positioned itself as the go-to government partner. “The Netherlands has long been transatlantic in orientation and gives commercial parties a lot of space,” Schaake told…
on “Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost” ↗