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The overarching domination of life by digital technologies, systems, and logics, extending beyond platforms to include surveillance infrastructure, automated decision‑making, data extraction, and the reduction of human experience to quantifiable information. Under this tyranny, everything is turned into data, and algorithms increasingly govern access to jobs, loans, healthcare, and justice. The tyranny is felt in the erosion of privacy, the replacement of human judgment by black‑box models, and the sense that one cannot opt out without becoming invisible or unable to function. It is maintained by technological solutionism, which treats digital tools as neutral improvements while hiding their costs.
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