User Generated Content

Literature, music, film — all products of human creativity and culture are now simply ‘content’ to be ‘shared’ in a snazzy digital container. There are now ‘content farms’ that pay people tiny amounts to produce ‘content’ at high speed according to what internet searches are trending: the digital world’s equivalent of slave-worked plantations.

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