In the previous video, we saw that Digital Colonialism is a structural machine that transforms our lifetime into profit. But if technology is at the service of exploitation, what is the way forward? The answer lies in the decolonization of technology.
Hi, I'm Laura, I have a master's degree in Communication and Information and I'm an undergraduate student in Internet Systems. Today we discuss how to subvert the colonizer's tools for the purpose of social emancipation.
The authors, inspired by Frantz Fanon, point to the need to Calibanize technology. During the Algerian Revolution, the colonizer's technology—the radio—was not simply rejected; it was appropriated and used for liberation and revolutionary communication.
The critique of domination cannot be limited to demonizing networks. This is where anti-capitalist hacktivism comes in. Hacker ethics acts as a deviant attitude of revolt and creative innovation in the face of control systems.
Digital colonialism has generated new forms of domination, but also new forms of struggle. We must understand technology and organize around it to contest it, whether through regulation, physical construction of alternatives, or transgression.
While workers at the base of the pyramid face precarious conditions, we need a social and popular focus to build alternatives. Hacktivists have been knowledgeable about these paths for a long time, showing us how to resist.
The algorithm IS NOT NEUTRAL. It is a historically determined character of power. Decolonizing it means reclaiming the right to knowledge and collective infrastructure outside of billionaire oligopolies.
In future videos, I intend to provide examples of collectives and organizations that are already confronting these practices. The struggle for the decolonization of technology is, in fact, the struggle for social emancipation.
Ultimately, the essential question that emerges is: are we ready to move from passive consumption to active technological subversion? I want to hear your thoughts on hacker ethics in the comments.