Censoring Big Social Media is a slippery slope that can end up turning social networks into state-sanctioned media.


Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School
Censoring Big Social Media is a slippery slope that can end up turning social networks into state-sanctioned media.

As an extension of US imperial power, US tech corporations are eager to support Israeli atrocities.

Musk’s controlled release of Twitter files in the name of ‘freedom of speech’ obfuscates the real problem with Twitter.

Amazon’s expansion into South Africa would strengthen digital colonialism and hurt labour and Indigenous rights.

Delivering keynotes is a lucrative business in the US – even for some who claim to be committed to fighting inequality.
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Tech corporations are expanding the scope of surveillance across the correctional pipeline, but who pays the price?
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Antitrust efforts in the US are not enough to counter the global power of Big Tech.
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Proprietary social media networks need to be transformed into local and global digital commons.

It’s time to talk about Silicon Valley as an imperial force and what has to be done to resist its power.
