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In this week’s Filmsuck we interview Yasha Levine, author of Surveillance Valley, about the Netflix documentary Social Dilemma. It's supposed be to a scathing critique of Silicon Valley's manipulative social media business practices...yet why the hell does this crap film refuse to chart the actual history of the internet and the way its operations are entirely consistent with the ordinary workings of capitalism?
Here are the links to the great docs on the Internet/silicon valley ideology we mentioned:
Cybertopia: The Dreams of Silicon Valley (2015) by Marije Meerman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQy0ZCx3UCY&ab_channel=vprodocumentary
The Net (2003) by Lutz Dammbeck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY6fb59XFbQ&ab_channel=PortFilmCo-op
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011) by Adam Curtis
Part 1
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x60xjdl
Part 2
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x60y8sj
Part 3
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x60y8sn