What's the Thread With This Fragmentation?

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If nations don't sit down in this way, if we don't come to some new agreement, then the tensions that you outline with these two kind of different views of val and how these platforms should operate could actually cause an increasing fragmentation of the web. We already have china, russia, some other countries increasingly enclosing the web in their jurisdictions, behind fire walls with various restrictions that they have. And it's mented in many case, you were saying, through fire walls. China has a super effective one. Russia is now developing similar capabilities. But both are fragmenting this possibility that the web put out of, you know, let's have this global system of information.

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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