The extension of neoliberal principles into digital space: treating data as property, users as markets, public goods as products, and regulation as interference. Digital neoliberalism champions platform privatization of public functions, frames access as a market transaction, and treats the elimination of consumer protection as “innovation.” It is responsible for the transformation of libraries into content subscription services, public discourse into engagement metrics, and social services into algorithmic triage. Digital neoliberalism insists there is no alternative because “the market has already decided.”
Digital Neoliberalism Example: "The public school replaced its library with tablets loaded with corporate‑sponsored learning apps—digital neoliberalism, privatizing education while calling it modernization."
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Get the Digital Neoliberalism mug.The economic system where capital accumulation depends on data extraction, algorithmic control, and platform monopolies. Digital capitalism differs from industrial capitalism in that the primary commodity is not physical goods but information about users, and the primary site of exploitation is not the factory floor but the data center and the gig platform. Its defining features are surveillance as a business model, algorithmic labor management, and monopoly concentration that makes earlier trusts seem modest. Digital capitalism presents itself as post‑capitalist while intensifying every contradiction of capitalism.
Digital Capitalism Example: "He didn't pay for the service—he was the product, his attention sold to advertisers, his data sold to insurers. Digital capitalism: you are not the customer; you are the raw material."
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A term for the condition of being bound to digital platforms for essential services—work, communication, commerce, social life—under terms entirely controlled by platform owners. Digital slavery is not physical bondage but functional: you cannot opt out without losing access to the infrastructure of modern life. Your ability to work depends on a rating you cannot contest; your social life depends on a platform that can delete your account; your access to news depends on an algorithm you cannot see. Freedom is reduced to choosing which master to serve.
Digital Slavery Example: "She wanted to leave the platform, but her professional network, her banking, and her housing all required it—digital slavery, choice without exit."
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Digital Hyperslavery Example: "His rating on one app determined his insurance premium; his insurance premium determined his housing options; his housing options determined his ability to work. Digital hyperslavery: a closed loop of algorithmic determination."
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