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Washington Post sued over alleged surveillance pricing

Séamus Bellamy
Jun 13, 2026
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If you were fired or excluded from a job due to your race, age, or other demographics unrelated to the work you’re being paid to do, it’s called discrimination. But in our late capitalist world, the yacht-owning powers-that-be call it surveillance pricing. It’s a sanitary way of saying that a company will scre…

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