& @[email protected], and what does #criminalisation have to do with it? #DigitalRights 🧵
2/5 Technology deepens #criminalisation, automating #surveillance, border #policing and control. A safer future demands #decolonising - starting with our own field.
“The arms industries are saying: ‘This is a security problem, so buy my weapons, buy my drones, buy my surveillance system.’” – Ozelm Durmiel, Member of European Parliament In December 2021, the Guardian published an investigation on the hundreds of millions of euro that the EU and its member states…
5/5 The decolonising process for the digital rights field aims to put together a multiyear programme to better our capacity to resist digital criminalisation and create a safer future for all.
Read more: https://digitalfreedomfund.org/decolonising-digital-rights-why-it-matters-and-where-do-we-start/
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This speech was given by DFF director, Nani Jansen Reventlow, on 9 October as the keynote for the 2020 Anthropology + Technology Conference. The power structures underlying centuries of exploitation by one group of another are still here. Besides the fact that we, in reality, still have over 60 colonised…