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Michael Kwet
Michael Kwet is a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He is the author of Digital colonialism: US empire and the new imperialism in the Global South, and hosts theTech Empire podcast. His work has been published at Motherboard, Wired, BBC World News Radio and Counterpunch. He received his PhD in Sociology from Rhodes University, South Africa.
Right of reply: A rejoinder to the Zenprop chief executive about Amazon’s HQ
Zenprop chief executive James Tannenberger, who stands to benefit financially from the River Club development, failed to address the substantive points of our original article
Amazon’s colonial HQ in Cape Town must be stopped
Wealthy foreign corporations colonise local markets and impose technologies of violence and control on local populations
The metaverse: colonial fantasies of the wild West
Whether it becomes reality or just another fad, the metaverse misadventure is another indictment of the capitalist system and American empire
To fix Facebook, we need to socialise the networks
There are strong reasons to doubt that competitive capitalism will fix social media networks
Economic growth is destroying the planet
Ecosocialism will build solidarity with people to establish food and water commons, carbon-free public transport and community-owned renewable energy
Break the hold of digital colonialism
Your data is giving Big Tech control of everything and only a huge shift by the people can halt it
Big Brother set to watch each pupil
The secret move to monitor public school education will track children right into adulthood
The dangers of paperless classrooms
Users – not corporates – should control the software to meet social and economic needs.