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The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything (nos.nl)
submitted 14 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Has anyone coined a term like "digital imperialism"? I think it's quite fitting.

[โ€“] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Iannis Varoufakis (there's probably 2+ typos there) has coined something like digital feudalism.

I think it makes more sense when imperialism is between countries like in this case, but if you get rid of imperialism you still have feudalism between the tech companies and the users of their monopolistic products, on their terms.