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Ulises A. Mejias is professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego, and recipient of the 2023 State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for E... xcellence in Scholarship. His new book, co-authored with Nick Couldry, is "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (Chicago University Press).
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And the only way to resist it is grassroots mobilisation against the all-powerful broligarchy.
The campus protests and the crackdown on them reflect the dual role universities have played in colonial history.
The myth of data as a non-rival resource needs to be abandoned.
This is one way to ensure technology does not go against the interest of society.
Trump’s executive order on social media regulation will not prevent its abuse or the spread of disinformation.
Governments and corporations should not be allowed to use the pandemic as an excuse to expand surveillance.
Big Tech corporations are extracting data from users across the world without paying for it. It is time to change that.
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