Aral Balkan<p>My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.</p><p>With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-peop</span><span class="invisible">le/</span></a></p><p>It’s clear from this that Ireland should not be enforcing GDPR (not that they are) and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.</p><p>(Don’t hold your breaths.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/carelessPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carelessPeople</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/peopleFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peopleFarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ventureCapital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ventureCapital</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>