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#DigitalColonialism 💯
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · Jun 17
NEW: Across Africa, the State Department has demanded access to health data for millions of people as a condition of giving countries billions of dollars in aid needed to address HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other illnesses.
“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns
The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...
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June 17, 2026 at 6:59 PM
multithinker.bsky.social
Choosing between CCP or Murdoch-Ellison isn’t freedom

it’s slavery with different masters. Algorithms shouldn’t be weapons in elite hands. The fight is for people, not profiteers. #AlgorithmWars #CancelTikTok #DigitalColonialism
September 28, 2025 at 6:38 AM
rizwanabbasali.bsky.social
Digital Colonialism: Deconstructing AGI Infrastructure, Resource Imperialism, and the 0.13% GDP Illusionst rizwanabbasali.beehiiv.com/p/new-podigita…#SocialSciencn#HumanDignityty#ThePragmaticResearchere#RizwanAbbasAlili#DigitalColonialismsm#DataCenterParadoxox#ResourceSovereigntyty#GreenAuditit
September 17, 2026 at 8:14 AM
iamcr.org
🚨 New member book alert!
In Technocolonialism, IAMCR member Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social exposes how AI & "tech for good" can deepen global inequality & digital exploitation.
🔗 iamcr.org/books-madian...
#DigitalColonialism #TechForGood #AIJustice
July 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
rizwanabbasali.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/pragmati...
#SocialScienc #HumanDignity
#ThePragmaticResearcher #RizwanAbbasAli
#DigitalColonialism #DataCenterParadox #ResourceSovereignty #WorkforceEconomics #GreenAudit
The Pragmatic Researcher | Rizwan Abbas Ali | Substack
The Pragmatic Researcher and Author specializing in Social Science and Evidence-Based Research. Deeply committed to exploring Human Dignity and scalable social innovations through rigorous study and g...
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September 19, 2026 at 8:00 AM
okfn.bsky.social
🗣️ In a long-form interview with the Green European Journal, @okfn.bsky.social's CEO @avilarenata.bsky.social discusses #digitalcolonialism through the lens of AI and the digital transition.

Many thanks to journalist Amir Hashemi for facilitating such a fruitful discussion.

📄→ buff.ly/9aQ7CKk
September 1, 2026 at 8:51 PM
craigjclark.bsky.social
One of my followees on Bluesky, who is usually promoting their scrappy little indie slapstick comedy (Hundreds of Beavers, go see it), decided to run a thread about ethical AI and digital colonialism by having a conversation with ChatGPT.

God I love this place.

#AI #EthicalAI #digitalcolonialism
hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social Hundreds of Beavers Movie @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social · Nov 17
And now,
an Interview with AI
on the topic of AI!

🤖’s on 🤖’s

Episode One: Digital Colonialism

A 🧵:
November 17, 2024 at 12:51 PM
multithinker.bsky.social
DOGE meddling in Cabinet-level agencies? Labour, Education, Homeland Security, even Social Security? This isn’t just a red flag—it’s a hostile takeover of governance by Silicon Valley’s richest troll.
#MuskTakeover #DigitalColonialism #DOGEgate #AuditNow #StopTechTyranny
April 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
matthewremski.bsky.social
From actual meaning for First Nations to antivax BS to the Trucker Convoy to the Davos class: a political etymology of Mark Carney’s favourite word, “sovereignty.”

#AIForAll, #Sovereignty, #AntifascistDad, #DigitalColonialism, #Carney

youtube.com/shorts/cYUy4...
Mark Carney does not know what sovereignty means.
YouTube video by AntifascistDad
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June 5, 2026 at 11:14 AM
neilturkewitz.bsky.social
“The architecture of AI infrastructure reveals the architecture of power. Both can be redesigned.”

@timnitgebru.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social
#digitalcolonialism #aiethics #globalsouth #techjustice | Uchechukwu Ajuzieogu | 76 comments
Mosammat earns $95 a month. An AI camera watches her every move. Every time she pauses to stretch her aching back at her Dhaka garment factory, a color-coded alert flashes. The system, marketed as "s...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social
Events, Live Podiumsdiskussionen, Interviews und Konferenzen - viel ist los im April! Seid dabei!

Meldet euch für diesen "Newsletter" an um immer am neusten Stand zu sein:
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Viele Events, Podiumsdiskussionen und Konferenzen im April!
Sa. 5.4. (18.00 Uhr) - Live Interview mit Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra zu: #DigitalAuthoritarianism #DigitalDivide #DigitalColonialism …
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April 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
egghutt.bsky.social
My latest post in The Egg reviews Karen Hao's Empire of AI.
AI doesn't have to be wrapped up in fantasies of sentient robots or demand obscene levels of resource consumption. A better AI is possible.

open.substack.com/pub/egghutt/...

#EmpireOfAI #KarenHao #AGI #DigitalColonialism
The Rise of an AI Empire
The generative AI industry is taking over the world—but the world is fighting back.
open.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
wmmna.bsky.social
As #digitalcolonialism intensifies, so does the drive to resist it. A constellation of state and non-state actors – civil society groups, decentralised technology initiatives, digital commons movements – is attempting to forge alternatives lab.cccb.org/en/counterin...
Countering Digital Colonialism | CCCB LAB
A new type of dependency is emerging in which digital infrastructures replicate the old colonial logics.
lab.cccb.org
March 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
killerrabbit90.bsky.social
"Colonial AI": African Countries Seek Tech Sovereignty But Fear a New Digital Colonialism www.democracynow.org/2026/9/24/af... #Africa #Ai #TechSovereignty #DigitalColonialism #RegulateTech #RegulateAI #ColonialAI
“Colonial AI”: African Countries Seek Tech Sovereignty But Fear a New Digital Colonialism
Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is a member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, working on a strategy with the African Union to address the risks and benefits of AI for the continent. African ...
www.democracynow.org
September 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
marche.bsky.social
2. That framing isn’t neutral. It makes exploitation look natural, necessary, normal and even aspirational.

#AfricanDigitalWorkers #DigitalColonialism
March 27, 2026 at 12:45 PM
jpe1974.bsky.social
Google Maps now featuring the “Gulf of Freedom and Cheap Margaritas” — brought to you by Manifest Destiny and unchecked tech bros.

#DigitalColonialism #GoogleMapsFail #HistoryMatters #LatinoJustice #fucktrump
May 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
krautart.bsky.social
Today’s underrepresented issue: The digital divide didn’t vanish—it mutated.
Now we face a data divide: who owns it, who trains AI with it, and who’s left out.
If data is power, exclusion is policy.
Demand open, ethical, decentralized data for all.
#DigitalColonialism #OpenAccessNow #DecolonizeData
A conceptual AI generated image shows a glowing, high-tech city flowing with data streams on one side, and a dark village with broken wires and "No Signal" signs on the other. Corporate satellites selectively beam data from above, symbolizing the growing global data divide.
May 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
drmindset.bsky.social
Humor is a precision tool.
Laughter exposes fear, hierarchy, and the maintenance that hides behind inevitability.

#digitalcolonialism #extractiveai #decolonialmedia #postindustrial #TechnoFeudalism #criticaldesign #speculativemedia #mediaart #indigenousfutures #systemscritique
#entropy
January 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
anti-harari.bsky.social
#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, #AntiAI, #BookSky, #Bookstodon, #SomaticMaterialism
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6
ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a Technocolonialist Illusion and Somatic Materialism
ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a Technocolonialist Illusion and Somatic Materialism - Kindle edition by Kemal, Ali. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a Technocolonialist Illusion and Somatic Materialism.
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April 29, 2026 at 5:39 PM
rikunkmr.bsky.social
"Humanity has been stripped from the digital world: deliberately, maliciously."

—Sarah Kendzior

#ai #enshittification #digitalfeudalism #digitalcolonialism

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-red-wh...
I don’t buy a lot of stuff because I don’t have a lot of money. I don’t use a lot of technology because I don’t like it. I don’t like it because the people who control it are bad. They ruined every good innovation of my life. They encouraged us to destroy the analog world, and after we did, they replaced it with bullshit and lies. Google, once a wellspring of information sorted by chronology and preserved in caches, is an unusable cesspool. Photos taken by real people of real places have been replaced with AI fakes. Niche online hobby forums were sold to corporations and became unusable due to spam and bots. The early excitement of reconnecting with old friends on Facebook was replaced by the relentless push of automatons. You reach out for connection, but the algorithm ties your hands. You follow friends but are instead shown influencers. Where did everyone go, and who are these made-up strangers in their place? On YouTube and Tik-Tok, people transform their lives into infomercials, often to make cash in the gig economy that politicians deny exists. On Twitter, people become indistinguishable from the bots and paid operatives of political groups. Mobs spout vicious mantras in service of a cause or candidate that onlookers are told merits the cruelty inflicted on the last real human beings. There is no safe place to talk to a friend. Privacy has been obliterated. Anyone can go viral, and virality, true to its early internet coinage, is a disease. You go viral in pieces, devoid of context, like a chalk outline at a crime scene. Your crime was existing. Humanity has been stripped from the virtual world: deliberately, maliciously. The goal is to make humans less human. Less imaginative and more callous; more desperate and less kind. Less demanding of authority, but ruthlessly demanding of ordinary people who hold neither leverage nor power.
September 20, 2024 at 8:26 AM
untoldmag.org
Researcher Zina Qabbani shows how platforms like Google are not neutral tools,
they’re infrastructures of domination, distorting memory and normalizing genocide.
Read more on UntoldMag
#Gaza #DigitalColonialism #CartographicWar
August 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
leonardolosoviz.bsky.social
These are the public relations narratives most used by big tech corporations to justify the brutal consumption of resources by digital infrastructures (especially with the rise of Artificial Intelligence). #TechWashing
#GreenwashingAI
#DigitalColonialism
May 18, 2026 at 6:21 PM
geoplace.bsky.social
Organizers:
Mark Graham (Oxford Internet Institute, Univ. of Oxford)
Uma Rani (International Labour Organization)

We welcome interdisciplinary work from all career stages.
#AAG2026 #AI #TechJustice #GlobalProductionNetworks #Labor #ClimateJustice #DigitalColonialism
September 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
thestrangrinmybody.bsky.social
#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, #AntiAI, #BookSky, #Bookstodon, #SomaticMaterialism
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6
ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a Technocolonialist Illusion and Somatic Materialism
ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a Technocolonialist Illusion and Somatic Materialism - Kindle edition by Kemal, Ali. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a Technocolonialist Illusion and Somatic Materialism.
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April 29, 2026 at 5:43 PM
reset.org
Did you know that 95% of global internet traffic travels through undersea cables? And their routes are a ghost map of colonial empires. A thread of wild facts 🧵👇

#STS #DigitalColonialism #TechEthics #Infrastructure #BigTech #Ubuntu #EstherMwema
September 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM