The Silicon Curtain: America’s Devious Attempts at Maintaining Tech Hegemony

In a startling incident, a high-level American diplomat pressured South Korea into choosing American tech companies over Chinese tech, highlighting how America is trying to colonize the world of data and undermine the informational sovereignty of the Global South.

These remarks, however, must not be seen in isolation. They are a part of a calculated and calibrated strategy on the part of the United States of America to try and expand the tentacles of American big tech companies with the aim of harnessing data from countries of the Global South in order to emerge as the de-facto leader in the global informational discourse.

Techno-feudalism at Its Worst

In his book How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy, the French economist Cedric Durand called this phenomenon techno-feudalism. He argued that history never really goes........

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