Mastodawn

If all our banking, shopping, travel, TV, business email and messaging etc. continued to work, we wouldn't describe ourselves as having an 'internet blackout'.

A friend who had been visiting family in Tehran and left on Monday confirmed this was the case up to then.

When journalists use this language they are engaging in the #DigitalImperialism of #BigTech which identifies the internet with the services provided by largely US companies. (2/3)

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Mar 25, 2025

The Conversation: Digital imperialism: How US social media firms are using American law to challenge global tech regulation. “What is brewing is a global struggle over digital platform governance. And in this battle, U.S. platforms are increasingly leaning on American laws to challenge other nation’s regulations. It is, we believe as experts on digital law – one an executive director of a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/25/digital-imperialism-how-us-social-media-firms-are-using-american-law-to-challenge-global-tech-regulation-the-conversation/

Arthur McTalon Feb 3, 2025

Imperial Exchange - Krita, 2025
#digitalimperialism #colonialism #pollution #smog #cargoships #militaryindustrialcomplex #digitalart #digitalpainting #digitalsketch #gritty #roughsketch #roughbrushstrokes #ocean #seascape

Aral Balkan Nov 29, 2024

When Silicon Valley says “jump!” Ireland asks “How high, daddy?”

#Ireland #SiliconValley #digitalImperialism #institutionalCorruption #climateCrisis #climateChange #BigTech #DataCentres https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/113559988974673492

Gerry McGovern (@[email protected])

In Ireland, data centers already use more metered electricity than all urban households. That’s not all. Their backup and emergency generators caused 135,000 tons of CO2 over the last 5 years. Some planned data centres intend to be powered by gas because they cannot be connected to the grid as it is under such strain. https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-data-centres-6554698-Nov2024/

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Harald Eilertsen Sep 22, 2024

Allow me the impertinence to begin by summarising your otherwise nobel-worthy piece of literature: In a nutshell, you say we should talk like you, fund like you, and disregard human rights like you. [...]

Excuse me if this does not appeal to me.

Has it even occurred to you that perhaps — just perhaps — we are not failing at being like Silicon Valley but that we do not want to be like Silicon Valley?

Have you ever wondered if maybe we can do better than to adopt an excessively greedy system of venture capital and exits that funds spyware and treats people as capital to be bought and sold?

This piece from @Aral Balkan is about ten years old, but sadly still relevant. (Although the context may have changed slightly.) Well worth a read!

#Digital Imperialism

Aral Balkan — A Nancy Writes Back (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Digital Imperialism)

Aral Balkan Sep 22, 2024

One from the vaults: A Nancy Writes Back (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Digital Imperialism)

https://ar.al/notes/a-nancy-writes-back-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-digital-imperialism/

I wrote that post ten years ago.

Here’s where we are today:

https://small-tech.org

Here’s where they are:

http://www.wearableworld.co

(Do not adjust your browsers, yes, it’s a 404.)

🤷‍♂️

#BigTech #SmallTech #EU #SiliconValley #DigitalImperialism

Aral Balkan — A Nancy Writes Back (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Digital Imperialism)

PJ "Vote Green" Coffey Jul 21, 2023

I'd just like to applaud

Evil As A Service

Great # 10/10 no notes.
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110752128296381545
@aral - Google: Here’s our latest evil plan…

Folks: That’s an evil plan, we don’t like it.

Google: Please keep the discussion to technical issues only.

#Google #EvilAsAService #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #BigTech #DigitalImperialism #adtech #DRM #web #standards #WebStandards #w3c

Aral Balkan (@[email protected])

Google: Here’s our latest evil plan… Folks: That’s an evil plan, we don’t like it. Google: Please keep the discussion to technical issues only. #Google #EvilAsAService #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #BigTech #DigitalImperialism #adtech #DRM #web #standards #WebStandards #w3c

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Aral Balkan Jul 21, 2023

“Privacy considerations: Todo”

You can’t make this shit up.

(I guess Google’s PR department hasn’t gotten round to submitting the copy for that section yet.)

https://rupertbenwiser.github.io/Web-Environment-Integrity/#privacy

#Google #WebEnvironmentIntegrity #EvilAsAService #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #BigTech #DigitalImperialism #adtech #DRM #web #standards #privacy #GDPR #WebStandards #w3c