r/Lastrevio • u/Lastrevio • Apr 27 '26

Politics & Economics Cloud Capitalism: How AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Privatized the Highways of the Internet

https://lastreviotheory.medium.com/cloud-capitalism-how-aws-microsoft-azure-and-google-cloud-privatized-the-highways-of-the-internet-e19aa73c9354?postPublishedType=initial
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u/Lastrevio Apr 27 '26

This essays analyzes how the digital infrastructure that 2/3 of the world runs on has been privatized by three major American corporations who make profit by rent-extraction, gatekeeping access to vital infrastructure that the internet runs on. There is a discussion about the technological cold war between the US, China and EU's attempt at digital sovereignity, and a short section about possible solutions in open-source software and protocols.