SURFEIT

  Silicon Valley-centered Western technological power and the silent structure of global control In the modern world, technology is not only a development tool but also a covert way of increasing power and influence. The Western technological power that revolves around Silicon Valley is today a major controlling power over digital infrastructure globally. Not only do they offer technological advantages through services such as cloud infrastructure, web browsing services, AI, ML, SEO, and database infrastructure, but they also exert subtle control over information flows, knowledge production, and behavioral patterns online. Algorithmic control is a significant feature of this technological domination. Algorithms that control the availability of information are an important element of this technological domination; The neutrality of information, therefore, is at stake, and a particular type of thinking or a perspective becomes more dominant than the other. Indexing, citation and AP...