"I'm not saying any data territory is intrinsically ... bad, *but* it creates the possibility of power. Because if you wrote the code ... then you are in control of the tracking of everything that goes in there, and that means that you have the possibility of managing what people do in that territory."
#NickCouldry, 2024, co-author of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
https://techwontsave.us/episode/246_the_threat_of_data_colonialism_w_ulises_a_mejias__nick_couldry
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"If you're wanting to take something from someone you have no social relations with, there are only two options; brutal violence, and, lying, and [colonisers] use both."
#NickCouldry, 2024, co-author of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
https://techwontsave.us/episode/246_the_threat_of_data_colonialism_w_ulises_a_mejias__nick_couldry
#podcasts #TheNation #TechWontSaveUs #ParisMarx #Colonialism #DataColonialism #DataGrab
"We would hope that decolonizing data can become not a movement that is co-opted by certain parties and individuals for political gain, but a larger, pluriversal, global movement of solidarity where we, regular human beings, can reclaim our digital data and transform it into a tool to act on the world, instead of a tool for corporations to act on us."
Interview with #NickCouldry & #UlisesMejias
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/12/13/how-to-resist-against-data-colonialism-interview-with-nick-couldry-ulises-mejias/
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