Democratic institutions can successfully reclaim authority over the digital future from private power.
Evidence
In reasserting the right to be forgotten, the court declared that decisive authority over the digital future rests with the people, their laws, and their democratic institutions. It affirmed that individuals and democratic societies can fight for their rights to the future tense and can win, even in the face of a great private power. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 185
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Democratic institutions can again produce countermeasures to abnormal accumulation — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1644; A humane third-modernity digital capitalism remains a genuine future possibility — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 166; The internet amplifies existing political power rather than transforming it — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 489 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Democratic institutions can again produce countermeasures to abnormal accumulation
#expands(0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1644 - Data-driven governance converts democratic dialogue into a corporate-owned probability spectrum
#complicates(0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 645 - The free digital universe was produced by political decisions, not inevitability
#corroborates(0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 82 - A humane third-modernity digital capitalism remains a genuine future possibility
#qualifies(0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 166 - The internet amplifies existing political power rather than transforming it
#complicates(0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 489 - Stable open government with countervailing institutions is needed to stimulate trustworthiness
#corroborates(0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 519