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The Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital - Onion Talks - Ep. 9

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Satire & parodyPrivacy, surveillance & cybercrimeStartups & entrepreneurship

What it is

A satirical Onion Talks episode in which a startup founder explains making money by selling his users' data to oppressive governments. It parodies tech conference talks and monetization of communities.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Posted as a joke or satire whenever a company sells out its users or surveillance comes up.

  • 1 people recommended it
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  • 0 strong recommendations
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What HN commenters said

  1. “This Onion talk put it really well”

    Satire on companies selling out their communities.

    smokinn, 2013-10 · Recommendation · in “The Story Behind a Radical New Idea: A Social Network for Academia”

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Topics: the onion, satire, user data, privacy, startups

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