SSA Ontology

Digital Dependency Trap

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Digital Dependency Trap

Scope note: Platforms That Replace Human Support — Then Fail

When support is moved online in the name of “accessibility,” but results in even less accountability — and no one to talk to when the system breaks.

Concept record

Canonical URI

https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/term/digital-dependency-trap/

Related concepts

No explicit related concepts in v0.1.

Status and licence

Published in SSA Ontology v0.1.0. Content licensed CC BY 4.0.

Machine-readable representation

The structured record below is also embedded in this page as JSON-LD.

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Provenance

This concept was extracted from the original SSA Lexicon and republished as a stable ontology resource. Original source page(s): https://www.mcloughlin.world/ssa-lexicon/glossary-of-weaponised-access/

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