The attention extraction industry is an enemy of all humankind

Evidence

We spend nearly the entirety of our waking hours in digital spaces substantially financed by extractive profit models that systematically tap human beings for the money-value of our eyeballs. This twelve-trillion-dollar operation drives a global-scale, computationally intensive, and commercially lucrative system for the sourcing, aggregation, and nonstop auction-market of human attention—an industry of psychic extraction that has become, in the twenty-first century, what slavers and pirates were to an earlier age: hostis humani generis, Latin for “an enemy of humankind”; which is to say, not an enemy of this person, or that person, or even of this nation or that, but an enemy of all of us, in our actual humanity. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 85

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives the legal-historical category ‘hostis humani generis’ as the frame for judging the industry.
• XREF: Slavers and pirates as prior declared enemies of humankind connects to international law’s piracy doctrine. — connects to: An attention-extraction industry converts human care into money and harms everyone. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 480; Attention extraction is fundamentally a denial of human dignity. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 175
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 85