"There's no option for f t r type progressive capitalism and survival. And so younote some dig technudeal proposals, and i have one article out with the new deal in it, and then i scratched it because i didn't want association with f d r," he says. "We need classless society. We need reparations in order forit to happen, from the north to south." 'Cloud centers should be being put up as reparations if we're going to use em,' writes Pissarides. "'Social media' is a socialist form of de iation, which means its free and open source,. Its community run. It's not oriente towards profit
Paris Marx is joined by Michael Kwet to discuss how digital technologies are used to entrench the power of the United States and its dominant corporations at the expense of the Global South.
Michael Kwet is a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He got his PhD in Sociology at Rhodes University in South Africa. Follow Michael on Twitter at @Michael_Kwet.
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