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Michael Kwet is a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He is the author of Digital colonialism: US empire and the new imperialism in the Global South, and hosts theTech Empire podcast. His work has been published at Motherboard, Wired, BBC World News Radio and Counterpunch. He received his PhD in Sociology from Rhodes University, South Africa.
Zenprop chief executive James Tannenberger, who stands to benefit financially from the River Club development, failed to address the substantive points of our original article
Wealthy foreign corporations colonise local markets and impose technologies of violence and control on local populations
Whether it becomes reality or just another fad, the metaverse misadventure is another indictment of the capitalist system and American empire
There are strong reasons to doubt that competitive capitalism will fix social media networks
Ecosocialism will build solidarity with people to establish food and water commons, carbon-free public transport and community-owned renewable energy
Your data is giving Big Tech control of everything and only a huge shift by the people can halt it
The secret move to monitor public school education will track children right into adulthood
Users – not corporates – should control the software to meet social and economic needs.
