Burning out digital colonialism
From global content moderation to overnight algorithm variation
affecting news streams, Big Tech is taking full control of key
aspects of our social lives and directly affecting our collective
autonomy, media independence and, more generally, freedom. We
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vor 6 Jahren
Solana Larsen, Luis Carlos Diaz Big technology companies have
benefited from the openness of the Web to grow their businesses,
but after consolidating power they are putting at risk the very
feature that allowed them to grow so powerful: decentralization. A
period of unprecedented creativity and expansion involving a
diverse pool of companies, is now being followed by endless mergers
and acquisitions and the centralization of data to dominate all
other industries. Those with access to more data points and
computational power dominate the World today and that presents
pretty much a new form of colonialism, "digital colonialism". Their
user base is larger than entire countries, but their aspirations of
expansion are even larger. Their databases, centralised, getting a
copy of each and everything you share online, your keystrokes, your
activity in their platforms, the time you spend reading an article,
what you buy, share, like or dislike online get larger, richer and
more sophisticated by the day. The Web for Everyone become a Web
for few to create, many to consume. New strategies to take back the
Internet and really make it for everyone are necessary and our talk
will unveil 10 key steps to get there.
benefited from the openness of the Web to grow their businesses,
but after consolidating power they are putting at risk the very
feature that allowed them to grow so powerful: decentralization. A
period of unprecedented creativity and expansion involving a
diverse pool of companies, is now being followed by endless mergers
and acquisitions and the centralization of data to dominate all
other industries. Those with access to more data points and
computational power dominate the World today and that presents
pretty much a new form of colonialism, "digital colonialism". Their
user base is larger than entire countries, but their aspirations of
expansion are even larger. Their databases, centralised, getting a
copy of each and everything you share online, your keystrokes, your
activity in their platforms, the time you spend reading an article,
what you buy, share, like or dislike online get larger, richer and
more sophisticated by the day. The Web for Everyone become a Web
for few to create, many to consume. New strategies to take back the
Internet and really make it for everyone are necessary and our talk
will unveil 10 key steps to get there.
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