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The Social Dilemma stresses that we have subverted to a lifetime of voluntary servitude online, because - especially now - it is our primary means of connection. Foucault’s theories of power and surveillance? Chomsky’s five filters of the propaganda model? It all came rushing back to me as I watched more.

Watching this as someone who studied the Internet and its intricacies in post-graduate school, offered up some pretty vivid flashbacks to the then-seemingly mundane theories and literary works in the form of now-confronting realities. As expected, audiences share in the discomfort of these confessionals which appear to be PSAs of sorts. In the roughly 90-minute film, a handful of former employees of Twitter, Google, Apple, Facebook, Uber, Instagram and more recount their ethical concerns over the shifting tides of social media and power. In the past six months, the OTT giant has put out a plethora of documentaries on the Internet problem, so what is so different with this one that people all over the world are hyperventilating? Answer: All those swirling facts about surveillance, data collection, algorithmic power and addiction have solid corroboration straight from the people who not only worked at these companies but even helped start them or catalyse their growth. The Social Dilemma, the latest documentary from Jeff Orlowski.

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Social media is always going to be a dozen steps ahead of you, even when you think you may have cracked the formula for social networking.Īs most of the world continues to be home-bound, Netflix has placed audiences in the ultimate social dilemma by streaming It comes about 20 minutes into the film but it is quite a metaphor for the entire arc of the documentary. The Social Dilemma, where former Google design ethicist and product philosopher Tristan Harris does a vanishing coin trick. There is a ‘now you see it, now you don’t’ scene in

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