This LA Times opinion piece argues that people are getting increasingly slotted into siloed group think by manipulative social media. The author summarizes a couple theories on the interplay between privacy and advertising and free will.
For example:
"Klein’s theory is that many of our actions no longer reflect careful deliberation, but the prodding of what she calls our digital doubles, forged from the data generated by every click, view and search, which expose our proclivities and vulnerabilities. “Every data point scraped from our online life makes our double more vivid, more complex, more able to nudge our behavior in the real world,” she writes."
And toward the conclusion
"The more Big Tech is allowed to extract our data from us, the more vulnerable we are as citizens. In “Privacy Is Power,” Carissa Véliz argues that privacy is central to personal freedom and a free society. “We need it to be autonomous individuals, and for democracies to function well we need citizens to be autonomous,” she writes."
@alienghic
I was pleasantly surprised that the article wasn't behind a paywall because a big contributor to information silos/bubbles are paywalls. NYTimes is in a NYTimes bubble.
