In this future we are exiles from our own behavior, denied access to or control over knowledge derived from its dispossession by others for others. Knowledge, authority, and power rest with surveillance capital, for which we are merely ‘human natural resources.’ We are the native peoples now whose tacit claims to self-determination have vanished from the maps of our own experience.
Digital dispossession is not an episode but a continuous coordination of action, material, and technique, not a wave but the tide itself.

Google’s leaders understood from the start that their success would require continuous and pervasive fortifications designed to defend their ‘repetitive sin’ from contest and constraint. They did not want to be bound by the disciplines typically imposed by the private market realm of corporate governance or the democratic realm of law. In order for them to assert and exploit their freedom, democracy would have to be kept at bay.

Shoshanna Zuboff