Technology is touted as an apolitical, neutral, “objectively” benevolent entity that epitomizes human creativity, innovation and is merely created to improve the quality of human life. […] However, technology like science as a whole is a tool which when created by the capitalist state is a tool of extraction, exploitation, control, repression and subjugation.

Quite a long read, but absolutely worth it: Surveillance Capitalism I: How digital platforms watch, track & control you

wokescientist.substack.com/p/surveillance-capitalism-i-how-digital