Companies like facebook and gogle are trying to bring more people into this kind of global technological system, says perser. Perser: It's a kind of missionary colonialism. They like to think of themselves and talk about themselves as if they are just providing stuff to make society better. But thereare inequality machines, their consumerism machines, at a time where sumerism is threatening life on earth," he adds.
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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