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🎥 DIGITAL SERFDOM — THE NEW FEUDAL ORDER

We traded kings for platforms — and became data vassals.
In this video, Professor Thomas W. Hornig exposes how algorithmic power, surveillance capitalism, and the re-engineering of legal personhood have created a new digital feudal age. Autonomy is bartered for access, and rights now live — and die — inside Terms of Service.

This episode links legal theory, AI ethics, and political economy to show how corporations, algorithms, and even ecosystems gain enforceable protections while human agency contracts — and what can still be done to reclaim sovereignty.

Like the man in Kafka’s Before the Law who waits endlessly before a gate meant for him alone, we stand before portals owned by code. The gate is open, but entry is conditional on consent we never truly give. This is the Execution Gap in its digital form: law exists, but personhood has been privatized.

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🎥 Companion Clips

1️⃣ UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty — “Unnecessary Care” Leaked Video
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A viral corporate address defending a 32% denial rate as “guarding against unsafe care.” Kafka’s gatekeeper reborn: the system speaks as protector while perfecting exclusion. What was once royal decree is now automated compliance.

2️⃣ Hannah Arendt — “The Right to Have Rights”
   • Hannah Arendt's lessons for our times: the...  
Arendt explains that the first right is to belong. Digital feudalism replaces belonging with registration; citizens become users, membership becomes a license.

3️⃣ Carl Sagan — “Pale Blue Dot”
   • Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot  
Sagan’s reminder of our shared fragility is the moral inverse of the algorithmic empire — systems that scale precision but not empathy.

🕯 James Baldwin — Justice and the Unprotected

“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one goes to the unprotected—those who need the law’s protection most.”
Baldwin names the silence inside the digital gate: visibility without voice, participation without protection.

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🔎 What You’ll Learn

• How algorithmic landlords extract rent from attention and behavior
• Why legal personhood expands for non-humans while shrinking for people
• How walled gardens, ranking, and de-platforming create dependency
• The concept of the Personhood Reset — a roadmap to restore digital sovereignty

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⏱ Chapters / Timeline

00:00 Intro — The Return of Feudal Logic
02:30 Algorithmic Landlords & Behavioral Rent
05:15 Expansion of Corporate Personhood
09:40 The Disappearance of Human Legal Visibility
13:20 Data Vassals: Labor, Creators, Users
17:10 Rivers, Robots, and Rights for the Non-Human
21:30 The Architecture of Digital Control
27:00 The Personhood Reset
31:20 Restoring Autonomy: Policy & Practice

“Terms of Service have replaced constitutional protections.”
“Non-human entities may soon hold more enforceable rights than human beings.”

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