The World White Web Is All About Knowledge

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The web was created in 19 89 by timbernerslee at a research centre in switzerland. The system got captured by this small group of companies that privatized it and turned it into a profit making machine. We don't know how many times an article was clicked on, how much minutes were spent on an article,. But mark suckerberg knows, right? And he has a whole system that he can tinker with to promote certain content or not. At the same time, facebook does know what type of content it is promoting. And we have this whole system of knowledge, basically now operating to the whims of four, five people whose objective is getting to the next quarter with a higher margin

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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