We’re Not in a Democracy - We’re in a Demagoguery

EP 383 - Jonathan MacDonald is back on the show and keener than
ever to get you interested in Ethical Tech.


We discuss why now, more than ever, people need to be given the
tools, and moral frameworks to inform their interactions with
increasingly opaque technology. How things like social media are
seemingly set up to keep us amused, distracted and rob us of our
critical thinking faculties and what that means for humanity in
the long term.


Jonathan isn’t an anarchist in a tin foil hat (or a
cryptoevangelist in a blonde wig come to that) but he is very
compelling on why we need to question whether Big Tech algorithms
and the people who control them actually have our best interests
at heart.


He’s pretty convinced that they don’t, or at least don’t care
about us beyond what we can do for them. Which is why he has set
up SELF - a personal privacy filter - and also ETHICS TV to help
people discuss, understand and control their own moral choices
around tech.


We also chat about the Roman Empire and its attitude to analogous
situations. We know plenty of you like to think about that kind
of thing quite a lot.


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Spotify Video Chapters:


00:00 BWB with Jonathan MacDonald


02:23 Meet Jonathan


03:18 The Mission: Alternative Future for Technology


04:44 Humans Are Batteries


05:05 The Reality of Free Services


05:58 The Normalisation of Surveillance


06:29 The Impact of Social Media on Society


07:33 The Coercion of Media and Politics


08:37 The Evolution of SELF: Personal Privacy Filter


09:50 The Demand for Privacy in AI Tools


10:50 The Future of Privacy: Self-Sovereign Mechanisms


11:47 The Physicality of Data Privacy


12:37 The Ineffectiveness of GDPR


13:09 The Dark Side of Data Exploitation


14:53 The Post-COVID Awareness Shift


34:02 Ethics in Technology


37:28 The Problem with Modern Democracy


39:18 The Importance of Critical Thinking


39:58 The Role of Media in Critical Thinking


42:30 Education and Critical Thinking


46:15 Ethical Issues in AI and Media


46:41 The Dystopian Future of AI


53:37 Building Ethical Technology


01:04:36 Personal Reflections and Advice


01:11:08 Quickfire - Get To Know Jonathan


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