Haugen – The Fake ‘Facebook Whistleblower’
Haugen isn’t really a ‘Facebook whistleblower’ – and it’s dangerous to imagine she is
YouTube’s Censorship Of RT’s German-Language Channels Is a Form of Hybrid Warfare
This dimension of the German Hybrid War on Russia is interestingly aimed at the German people instead of the Russian ones or those in any of the countries in which these two Great Powers compete. Russia’s Human Rights Council concluded that YouTube’s removal of RT’s German-language channels amounts to censorship after the US-based tech platform…
US and China Are Now Battling for Control of the World’S Big-Data Monsters and Dragons – And It’S Not About Money
As the tech war between the United States and China heats up, the political controversy between who ought to own and control ‘big data’ has similarly ignited, and is now about to land a bombshell on Wall Street. When Didi Chuxing, China’s ride-hailing giant, launched its mega US IPO earlier this summer, it seemed like…
Smart Cities & the End of the Era of Man
Changes in the productive forces such as any sort of 4th Industrial Revolution must come with vigorous public debate and referendums on planning for a post labor economy, Joaquin Flores writes. The world and its affairs have been turned upside down, and overnight the elite’s game plan was laid out bare for the world to…
The Techfare State: The ‘New’ Face of Neoliberal State Regulation
A recent article in the New York Times takes aim at ‘How Big Tech Won the Pandemic’, highlighting how in the last year alone, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook posted a combined revenue of more than $1.2 trillion. While the pandemic has resulted in the loss of both work and life the world over, companies like…
US Attempting to Prevent China’s Technological Rise
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill banning scientists from receiving government funding if they are also involved in any Chinese-funded project. Washington’s move is part of the U.S.’ overall strategy of technological confrontation with China. In the late 2000’s, China adopted the 1000 Talents Program to actively recruit world-class scientists to work in the…