Digital Looting
How Large Corporations and Superpowers Continue Colonial Exploitation Across the Globe

Colonialism is alive and well – with a new digital look, but the same brutality against populations and the natural environment

The global digital ecosystem is controlled by a handful of technology corporations. It is founded on dependencies that developed during the classic colonial era. Today, however, colonizers no longer need to maintain a physical presence in a colonized country to lash out at its population. The global digital architecture provides colonial overlords with more subtle tools of exploitation.

In this groundbreaking book, Satyajeet Malik points out the structural and systemic developments of a global architecture whose objective is to undermine the sovereignty and intensify the exploitation of the Global South. Even if the forms and strategy of colonial exploitation have changed, the primary objective remains the same, namely, to extract wealth and resources at the expense of others.

A pioneering analysis of digital colonialism as a global phenomenon

The author is a well-connected journalist in Germany and a long-time human rights lawyer in India