The Cost Of Convenience | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The Cost Of Convenience examines how internet platforms are impacting our mental health, restructuring our communities,  | dG1fTlBlNktGaTY4cjg

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00:00 [MUSIC]

00:02 >> Most of the Internet is currently funded by a business model that depends on

00:07 the systematic and mass violation of rights.

00:09 That's not normal, and it's not acceptable.

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00:14 >> Threats to human rights are everywhere in the digital world.

00:17 >> This kind of great interruption to our lives has made us question everything,

00:23 including what it is that these technologies are doing to us.

00:26 >> Technology products today are not worthy of our trust.

00:30 >> The greatest coup on the public has been this idea that we get to use all

00:36 these tools for free, they're just tools, they don't cost us anything.

00:40 We can participate or not participate with them.

00:43 >> It's an invisible cyber war.

00:44 The people don't even know that they're being manipulated by these forces.

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00:58 >> This idea of surveillance capitalism is spreading throughout the economy.

01:04 >> What is different today is that we've never had a screen that is personalized

01:10 specifically for us.

01:11 >> Truly, I think we're borderline a Black Mirror episode.

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01:25 >> How do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for

01:30 your service?

01:30 >> Senator, we run ads.

01:33 >> We become more predictable, more quantifiable.

01:38 >> Let's face it, the companies that stand to make money are powerful.

01:42 >> They are multi-billion dollar companies.

01:45 >> And Silicon Valley is like capitalism on steroids.

01:48 >> If Google is not responsible for its own products, who is?

01:52 >> We should be asking, who benefits?

01:55 [MUSIC]

01:56 Because each one of these things makes our life a little bit more convenient.

02:00 But there's a cost to that convenience, and the cost is often hidden.

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02:07 And it's always much, much greater than the benefit.

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