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Thank you for caring. 🙏 Explains how high-tech digital enclosures create a new, automated apartheid.
It is a continuation of historical colonialism, using data and algorithms to control populations.
Key arguments:
1. Strategic Fracturing: Global tech standards are deliberately fragmented to maintain Western dominance and create digital redlining.
2. Green Extractivism: The physical infrastructure for AI is fueled by the neo-colonial extraction of resources like cobalt, leading to severe human rights abuses.
3. Imperial Boomerang: Surveillance and control systems tested on borders are brought back to manage domestic populations.
Mechanisms of control:
Data Colonialism: Seizing human life through data extraction.
Digital Racial Capitalism: Using data (e.g. neighborhood volatility scores) to create social hierarchies.
Cognitive Extraction: Exploiting low-paid ghost workers, primarily in the Global South, to train AI systems.
Coloniality of Knowledge: Embedding a narrow, Western worldview into technology, erasing other ethical systems.
The analysis also covers resistance from exploited workers against these systems.

Summarizes the construction of a high-tech digital enclosure, a new form of automated apartheid, driven by the strategic fracturing of global standards and the extraction of physical and cognitive resources. The main claim is that the current phase of technological development, characterized by digital enclosure and automated apartheid, is a continuation of historical colonialism, using data and algorithmic systems to redraw lines of human value and control populations both abroad and domestically. The logic is structured around three interconnected angles: the strategic fracturing of global standards to maintain Western tech dominance and create digital redlining; the intersection of digital colonialism and resource extraction, termed green extractivism, which fuels AI infrastructure; and the imperial boomerang effect, where surveillance and automated control systems tested in borderlands are repatriated to control domestic populations. The video argues that data colonialism is the latest stage of colonialism, seizing human life through data, which is then used in digital racial capitalism to stratify people into hierarchies of disposability and depossessibility through mechanisms like neighborhood volatility scores. This system is reinforced by the coloniality of knowledge, where a narrow, Western worldview is hardwired into technology, leading to epistemicide by excluding non-Western ethical systems. The system is physically fueled by green extractivism, exemplified by the demand for cobalt from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which results in systemic human rights abuses and neo-colonial labor practices. Finally, the system relies on cognitive extraction through ghost work, where low-paid workers, often in the Global South, perform the tedious and traumatizing labor of training AI, though these workers are shown to be actively resisting through collective action and counter-automation tactics.