
Enclosing the internet—Big Tech’s cloud cover
Like physical clouds, the services provided by the technology majors are utterly opaque.
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Cecilia Rikap is a lecturer in international political economy (IPE) at the City University of London and a researcher at CONICET, Argentina’s research council. She is author of Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered (Routledge).

Like physical clouds, the services provided by the technology majors are utterly opaque.

Cédric Durand and Cecilia Rikap
Unregulated capitalism has always tended to monopoly. But Big Tech represents a challenge antitrust tools can’t tame.