Global digital experience is controlled by US corporations despite non-US majorities.

Evidence

But in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the vast majority of the digital experience took place in spaces engineered and controlled by US corporations. As more and more of the world gained access to the network of machines—starting, of course, with the wealthy and especially young segments of the world population—North American users became a minority, but the entire ecosystem remained profoundly shaped by these firms. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 289

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to broader global-infrastructure critiques like Base Nation and platform-capitalism literature. — connects to: Digital colonialism rests on layered ownership spanning devices, cloud, and content. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 92; A handful of unelected executives control the world’s information and social connection — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 406; Incumbent non-tech corporations, not platforms alone, drive data colonialism’s expansion. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 117

Broader Connections

• A handful of unelected executives control the world’s information and social connection #corroborates (0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 406
• Digital colonialism rests on layered ownership spanning devices, cloud, and content. #expands (0.78) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 92
• Incumbent non-tech corporations, not platforms alone, drive data colonialism’s expansion. #complicates (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 117