The capitalist system of the global north has created this centralized web that we have to day. And part of what you propose in the peace is that the solutions to the problems should come from the global south. You propose a new version of the nonaline movement, which was this group of countries during the cold war who were not on the side of the capitalist west but also not e soviet union. So what would you see this digital nonaline movement.
Paris Marx is joined by Juan Ortiz Freuler to discuss the recent global negotiations on the taxation of multinational corporations, how Africa is demanding the digital labor of its citizens be accounted for, how these tensions threaten to fragment the web, and why the Global South may hold a better future of technology that transcends the capitalist, centralized, and individualist platforms which currently dominate.
Juan Ortiz Freuler is an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a member of the Tierra Común network of researchers. He recently made the case for a digital non-aligned movement. Follow Juan on Twitter as @juanof9.
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