I've Had to Keep My Profile, Right?

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The capitalist structures of these major platforms that already exist limit the way that we use the web. This is what many people who work in kind of the text sector call centralization t where these companies have become central actors. It's also really worrying, right, about how successful these companies have been at locking down what we do on line and keeping us on their platform. We need to think about how we can develop different forms of technology that promote knowledge creation," he says.

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.

Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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