anyone writing “surveillance capitalism” is missing the point by light years: modern statecraft and economic activity are predicated upon surveillance apparatuses. vendors who carry out that surveillance are not the enemy: the enemy is, and has always been, the State itself

without deep-rooted surveillance, the entire notion of a modern liberal democracy becomes untenable. you want social services, protection, legal action, expanded policymaking, web services, insurance. all these things, like it or not, are measures of surveillance

there is no "surveillance state". there is only the state. there is no "surveillance capitalism". there is only capitalism. if what you want is freedom from surveillance, you require a form of democratic liberalism that functions without the oversight of a powerful nation state