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“After ww2 and the Nuremberg trials, informed consent was established as an ethical prerequisite for expirements on humans subjects. In the case of online experiments, however, this principle is widely flouted - usually, this consent is extorted from users via the general terms of use to which they agree when they sign up to a givens platform” - 97 This book is blowing my mind

“ the flexibility that facilitated creative work seems reminiscent of anti authoritarian revolt of the 1960s and it would certainly be nice to believe for a second that this could really be the new face of work. Unfortunately, this is not the case. For all the fine rhetoric cooked up in relaxed west coast offices, the organizational changes that they are actually promoting fuel exactly the opposite dynamic “ -42