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Cory Doctorow

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Inside: Ad-tech is fascist tech; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/ice-tech/

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Times Square, lit up by night. Every ad sprouts a giant CCTV bubble. A green smoke crawls over the landscape.

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Pluralistic: Ad-tech is fascist tech (10 Mar 2026)

Rory D.

@[email protected] replied · 13 minutes ago

@pluralistic I love the collage for this post! Never noticed it before, but these particular security cams look like uncanny eyeballs, especially in the context of the rest of the image. Really drives home the point of the article.

Cory Doctorow

@[email protected] replied · 10 hours ago

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Cory Doctorow

@[email protected] replied · 10 hours ago

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Cory Doctorow

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