RT @nick_routledge: @ggreenwald Across multiple vectors—content moderation, technical infrastructure, data analytics, operational support and political synchronization—a stakeholder-biased alignment-regime hardwires the stack to deliver preferred geopolitical outcomes, typically masked as neutral standards.
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Copy of tweet here: 17/ The paradigm drift? Editorial framing and feed control (broadcast and social media networks). Infrastructure ownership of data centers and cloud systems (Oracle, Google, Microsoft, Palantir). Political capture (Congress) translating "security narratives" into law and policy.
The Ellison gambit crowns an era: geopolitics, corporate acquisitions, and platform governance are finally fusing into a closed stack around a comprehensive strategic push to functionally secure planet-scale control of an Infosphere governing what billions see and hear. 1/22 🧵
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Copy of tweet thread here: 1/22 The Cloud does not merely transmit information. It installs a regime of attention, configuring how we relate to reality itself. To live within it is to be invisibly inscribed into programmed experience and, with it, the soul’s way of knowing, desiring, and even _existing_. 2/ The Cloud is not neutral. It is the infrastructure through which worldly power cloaks itself in metaphysical authority. Who is seen, who is shadowbanned. Which narratives gain traction, which disappear. The suffering counting as 'real,' and what gets rendered as noise. 3/ The Cloud rules what appears, what is believed, feared, desired. It is a politico-theological apparatus, a throne of mediated worldhood where meaning's terms—what is real, grievable, sacred, expendable—are set not by what is written in the heart but by automated decree.