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Big Tech Tyrants
- How Silicon Valley's Stealth Practices Addict Teens, Silence Speech and Steal Your Privacy
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Publisher's Summary
"Boy Kings," or Big Tech Tyrants, are considered the most powerful individuals in the world. They're the autocratic aristocrats who run the tech giants in Silicon Valley, and these social platform operators have gained a non-elected (or, should we say, a self-elected) authoritarian power. They wield it with more effectiveness and precision than any sitting government or military strategist.
Big Tech Tyrants boast riches beyond emperors of old but act like juveniles who don't want to grow up. They are modern-day robber barons. Big Tech Tyrants don't know the meaning of privacy, when it comes to you. They try to make you believe they will give their products away for free as a service to society, when really, they are vacuuming your personal data. They use this data to discover your deepest secrets. Are you or your partner trying to get pregnant? Are you underwater financially? Are you having an extramarital affair? Do you have a tidy nest egg? Are you a Trump supporter? Are you a Bernie Sanders follower? Are you a Scientologist, Mormon, Christian, or Buddhist? Your personal data is extremely valuable to them, and they use it and abuse it.
Big Tech Tyrants is an eye-opening, must-listen book for anyone living in the 21st century.
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a modest look at what Facebook can repair
- By Elkobri on 01-19-21
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Zucked
- Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
- By: Roger McNamee
- Narrated by: Roger McNamee
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 501
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 435
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 430
The New York Times best seller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook investor, who wakes up to the serious damage Facebook is doing to our society - and sets out to try to stop it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important story made almost unbearable
- By vince on 03-14-19
By: Roger McNamee
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Public Parts
- How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live
- By: Jeff Jarvis
- Narrated by: Jeff Jarvis
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 431
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 375
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Story4 out of 5 stars 368
A visionary and optimistic thinker examines the tension between privacy and publicness that is transforming how we form communities, create identities, do business, and live our lives. The Internet, he argues, will change business, society, and life as profoundly as Gutenberg’s invention, shifting power from old institutions to us all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An important read
- By Simon H. Morris on 10-08-12
By: Jeff Jarvis
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The Filter Bubble
- What the Internet Is Hiding from You
- By: Eli Pariser
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 308
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 254
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Story4 out of 5 stars 250
In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. According to MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, Google's change in policy is symptomatic of the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years: the rise of personalization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now in the top 3 best books I've ever read
- By Brian Esserlieu on 05-26-11
By: Eli Pariser
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Don't Be Evil
- How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles - and All of Us
- By: Rana Foroohar
- Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 88
“Don’t be evil” was enshrined as Google’s corporate mantra back in its early days, when the company’s cheerful logo still conveyed the utopian vision for a future in which technology would inevitably make the world better, safer, and more prosperous. Unfortunately, it’s been quite a while since Google, or the majority of the Big Tech companies, lived up to this founding philosophy. Today, the utopia they sought to create is looking more dystopian than ever.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Could have been a great book...
- By george rodriguez on 11-28-19
By: Rana Foroohar
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The Manipulators
- Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Big Tech's War on Conservatives
- By: Peter Hasson
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story5 out of 5 stars 23
For better or for worse, Google and social media - “Big Tech”, collectively - have become the new public square. Unfortunately, this public square has a watchful referee standing behind them, ready and waiting to blow the whistle if they veer too far from the preferred narrative. Americans have given these companies enormous power to select the information they read, share and discuss with their neighbors and friends.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Content....Run 1.2x Speed or You'll Go Crazy
- By Peter on 05-17-20
By: Peter Hasson
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Move Fast and Break Things
- How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
- By: Jonathan Taplin
- Narrated by: Jonathan Taplin
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4 out of 5 stars 111
Move Fast and Break Things tells the story of how a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs began in the 1990s to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms - Facebook, Amazon, and Google - that now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing, and news industries.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Against progress and libertarians.
- By Matthew S. on 07-20-17
By: Jonathan Taplin
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Manipulated
- Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth
- By: Theresa Payton
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane, Theresa Payton
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton tells battlefront stories from the global war being conducted through clicks, swipes, internet access, technical backdoors and massive espionage schemes. She investigates the cyberwarriors who are planning tomorrow’s attacks, weaving a fascinating yet bone-chilling tale of Artificial Intelligent mutations carrying out attacks without human intervention, “deepfake” videos that look real to the naked eye, and chatbots that beget other chatbots.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesome book
- By John Hill on 06-05-20
By: Theresa Payton
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The Chaos Machine
- The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
- By: Max Fisher
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 397
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 344
The debut of a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist: a gripping narrative that fuses research, exclusive interviews, and on-the-ground reporting to capture the full inside story of Big Tech’s monomaniacal race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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First few chapters were good. The rest was bashing all right wing politics.
- By Brandon Bastianelli on 09-19-22
By: Max Fisher
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Privacy Is Power
- Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
- By: Carissa Véliz
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
As the data economy grows in power, Carissa Véliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and governments, why that matters and what we can do about it. The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away your data. Before you've even switched off your alarm, a whole host of organisations have been alerted to when you woke up, where you slept and with whom. As you check the weather, scroll through your 'suggested friends' on Facebook, you continually compromise your privacy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Exhausting, unfortunately
- By Mattias Johansson on 11-23-20
By: Carissa Véliz
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System Error
- Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
- By: Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, Jeremy M. Weinstein
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4 out of 5 stars 48
In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology’s liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. System Error exposes the root of our current predicament - how big tech’s relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get- and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent on tech. Weak on political speech.
- By Kindle Customer on 11-05-21
By: Rob Reich, and others
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The Wires of War
- Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
- By: Jacob Helberg
- Narrated by: Jesse Einstein
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story4 out of 5 stars 99
From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google’s global internal product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference. During this time, he found himself in the midst of what can only be described as a quickly escalating two-front technology cold war between democracy and autocracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible book
- By John Alexander on 10-21-21
By: Jacob Helberg
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
- By: Jaron Lanier
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,260
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,079
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,069
You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we’re better off without them. In his important new audiobook, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms behind before it’s too late. Lanier remains a tech optimist, so while demonstrating the evil that rules social media business models today, he also envisions a humanistic setting for social networking that can direct us towards richer and fuller way of living and connecting.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hatred for Trump Interferes with book
- By Maggie Lawrence on 06-23-20
By: Jaron Lanier
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Deepfakes
- The Coming Infocalypse
- By: Nina Schick
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Uncover everything you need to know about "deepfakes" and what could become the biggest information and communications meltdown in world history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing new if you’re techie
- By Keith on 03-30-21
By: Nina Schick
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Unapologetic Freedom
- How Bitcoin Defeats Censorship, Ensures Sovereignty, and Reclaims Our Liberty Forever
- By: Justin Rezvani
- Narrated by: Justin Rezvani, JP Sears
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story5 out of 5 stars 30
Centralization has made it easier for governments to standardize and regulate industries, and for media and technology companies to create and grow their own ecosystems. But the trouble with such centralized networks is that they are also susceptible to censorship, control, and a loss of freedom, as we’ve seen to our cost in the past few years. Combining decentralization and encryption through the Bitcoin standard and Lightning Network offers the return of the personal liberty that centralized banking, government, and social media entities have started to strip away.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good for reflection
- By Kico M on 06-11-22
By: Justin Rezvani
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The Hype Machine
- How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt
- By: Sinan Aral
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Social media connected the world - and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. Now a leading researcher at MIT draws on 20 years of research to show how these trends threaten our political, economic, and emotional health in this eye-opening exploration of the dark side of technological progress.
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5 out of 5 stars