The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Highlight

They no longer merely host content but aggressively, secretly, and unilaterally extract value from that content. As we shall see in Chapter 18, economic imperatives require them to forgo as few of these raw materials as possible. That means moderating only those extremes that threaten the volume and velocity of surplus by repelling users or attracting regulatory scrutiny.