BEYOND A BROKEN SYSTEM #135 - OUR DATA, OUR FUTURE: KEEPING OUR STORIES SAFE

The New Colonial Frontier

In earlier centuries, colonial powers invaded physical land, claimed it was empty territory (Terra Nullius), and extracted natural resources without permission. Today, as physical resources become scarcer, the Babylonian machine has created a new frontier for extraction: Digital Colonialism.

In the modern digital world, large technology and artificial intelligence corporations treat the internet as "Digital Terra Nullius", a wild, empty space where they feel entitled to take whatever they want. Automated software tools constantly scrape public social media posts, recorded community discussions, video interviews, family photographs, and traditional genealogies (whakapapa).