Big tech like Meta, Alphabet (Google), Nvidia and more are strangling the Global South. US companies dominate our search results, AI algorithms, with 80% of the info they were trained on coming from the Global North, are full of racial, gender, and pro-West bias, and these companies are creeping into and controlling various facets of life in Mexico, from the banking sector, to entertainment, and communication. But there is resistance and there are alternatives that involve regaining control over data, information, security, and ensuring that the Internet is actually run in the interests of people and planet rather than psychopathic, gluttonous bi11i0naires. The Internet can be a place that protects women rather than assaults them, that promotes community and various perspective rather than limiting those.
Mexican Activists Are Building Digital Defenses Against Big Tech Colonialism
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**Submission statement**
As social media and other aspects of big tech, from Amazon, to Airbnb and tourist sites, increasingly dominate their sector, where does that leave the Global South? Where does it leave other visions and cultures? Alternatives are actively being built, including feminist server communities, but do they stand a chance? Are people going to be more and more turned off by Internet spaces that are dominated by marketing and don’t represent them and move increasingly toward other options?