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"ref": "2012 March 16, Edward Tenner, “Why Wikipedia's Fans Shouldn't Gloat”, in The Atlantic",
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"ref": "2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 12, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism",
"text": "The systematic accretion of violence and complicity that engulfed whole populations at extreme velocity invoked a kind of bewilderment that ended in paralysis, even for many of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.",
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