Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism

by Jillian C. York Verso Books 03/15/2022, paperback SKU: 9781788738811   The battle for online rights and for the future of democracy Who decides what is permissible on the internet: Politicians? Mark Zuckerberg? Users? Who determines when political debate becomes hate speech? How does this impact our identity or our ability to create communities and to protest? Silicon Values reports on the war for digital rights and how major corporations -- Facebook, Twitter, Google and Tiktok -- threaten democracy as they harvest our personal data in the pursuit of profit. Reviews: "The Internet has never been the utopia of free and equal expression its ideologues would have us believe it is. Jillian York's vivid reportage shows us that the power to determine who gets to use it to speak, and under what circumstances, is now more concentrated--and less accountable--than ever before." -- Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies "For years, Jillian York has been at the forefront of defending f