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How is it anti-democratic? I'm on board with a ton of criticisms of surveillance capitalism, but "anti-democratic" isn't one I understand.

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It extends its tendrils into government services where corporate authoritarianism subverts democratic ideals. The ill-conceived attempt to force face id for IRS services via a third party is but one example.

What's the quickest way to bend folks to your will? Apply pressure at their weak points. How would one find them?

Anyone who shares information (even inadvertently) with a third-party, that info becomes government property. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32557745

Watch "The United States of Secrets" on Kanopy and sometimes PBS.

This feels more like "anti-libertarian" rather than "anti-democratic." The state having fairly tremendous power through warrants and other policing systems is largely orthogonal to the idea of government by the will of the people.

Splitting hairs, me thinks.

If individuals do not have the ability to disagree without ramifications, in absence of safety and security, will of the people can no longer exist.

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