Tag: tech monopolies
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AI Whiplash: Pre-Crime, Fake Reporters, & Immortality or Human Extinction
Gene Valaitis and Jon Liedtke discuss AI’s threats, from fake journalist identities scraping local Canadian news to Anthropic’s predictive surveillance tools. Liedtke argues that tech companies use apocalyptic warnings as PR spin for regulatory capture, seeking to create high barriers to entry to secure monopolies rather than protect public safety.
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610 CKTB | You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy: How Digital Feudalism is Replacing Ownership
Liedtke critiques “digital feudalism,” where tech companies replace true product ownership with revokable, subscription-based licenses and software-locked hardware. He argues that Canada lags behind global regulation, harming consumer autonomy, local repair shops, and the right to repair.