Amazon has a research group it unironically calls the "1492 project". It turns out that the colonial frame is actually useful for predicting behavior, and shou

Amazon has a research group it unironically calls the "1492 project". It turns out that the colonial frame is actually useful for predicting behavior, and should be kept for precisely that reason. Tech companies invade spaces with long-established established norms around property rights (e.g. wiretapping is a crime, I own my communications), then operate entirely outside those norms, and once they are powerful enough they assert that their norms have been law all along. This is akin to "buying land" with beads from people who have a completely different understanding of what "buying land" means. There is no informed consent. Informed consent is the difference between a voluntary market transaction and colonization.