l" Few of us understood it at that time, but none of the things that we’d go on to share would belong to us anymore. The successors to the e–commerce companies that had failed because they couldn’t find anything we were interested in buing now had a new product to sell."p\\
l" … Few of us understood it at that time, but none of the things that we’d go on to share would belong to us anymore. The successors to the e–commerce companies that had failed because they couldn’t find anything we were interested in buying now had a new product to sell."p\\
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l" That new product was Us."p\\
l" Our attention, our activities, our locations, our desires—everything about us that we revealed, knowingly or not, was being surveilled and sold in secret, so as to delay the inevitable feeling of violation that is, for most of us, coming only now. And this surveillance would go on to be actively encouraged, and even funded by an army of governments greedy for the vast volume of intelligence they would gain."p\\
l" That new product was Us."p\\
l" Our attention, our activities, our locations, our desires—everything about us that we revealed, knowingly or not, was being surveilled and sold in secret, so as to delay the inevitable feeling of violation that is, for most of us, coming only now. And this surveillance would go on to be actively encouraged, and even funded by an army of governments greedy for the vast volume of intelligence they would gain."p\\
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l" Note: This is a libertarian framing; corporate vs. government power evilness"p\\
