China’s cloudalists are fused with state functions that Silicon Valley lacks
Evidence
Unlike Silicon Valley’s Big Tech, China’s is directly bound into government agencies that make all-pervading use of this cloudalist agglomeration: to regulate urban life, to promote financial services to unbanked citizens, to link its people with state health care facilities, to conduct surveillance of them using facial recognition, to guide autonomous vehicles through the streets – and, outside of its borders, to connect Africans and Asians participating in China’s Belt and Road Initiative to its super cloud fief. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 579
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to broader state-capitalist vs. private-platform comparisons in the platform-feudalism literature. — connects to: China’s state AI policy targets economy-wide data integration — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 684; China operates a self-contained cloud empire as advanced as the West’s — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 210; Cloud capital’s dominance made confronting China’s cloudalists necessary for US hegemony — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 565 (+1 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 579
Broader Connections
- Cloud finance gives Chinese platforms a power Americans cannot match
#corroborates(0.90) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 582