Carole Cadwalladr On The Digital Coup -- Tom Sullivan

[erronis]

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/11/carole-cadwalladr-on-a-digital-coup/

She’s back with another warning

“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time,” Carole Cadwalladr insists in a nervous return to TED. Learn how to fight back, she urges. First we have to name it: “It’s a coup.”

“It’s already later than we think.”

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like

“It’s a kind of power we’ve never seen before.”

“We are already living within the architecture of totalitarianism. It may not have been deliberate, but we now have to act as though we are living in East Germany, and Instagram is the Stasi.”

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[Wild blueberry]

1. Very important

Thank you for posting this.

[peggysue2]

2. Wow!

The money line:

Data rights are human rights.

First time I've heard or read the explicit warning that what we're witnessing is a digital coup, a global phenomenon, as the tech wizards and their handmaidens/funders close in for total domination.

I recall reading about Cadwalladr's legal troubles but even more of the online attack she was under, nasty stuff. Gotta give her credit to come out swinging once again.

Another warning.

[hunter]

3. Posted on YouTube...

...incongruous to say the least.

Here's some of her writing on substack and another version of the same at The Guardian:

https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump

[Cirsium]

4. You can't win every battle

But you definitely won't win if you don't fight.