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SUMMARY:Silicon Valley and the State: Amazon\, Cloud Computing and Corpora
 te Rule - Alina Utrata (Department of Politics and International Studies)
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CONTACT:Dr Stefanie Ullmann
DESCRIPTION:In 2018\, Henry Farrell\, Margaret Levi and Tim O’Reilly co-
 authored an article on Vox entitled\, “Mark Zuckerberg runs a nation-sta
 te\, and he’s the king.” On the one hand\, this headline is objectivel
 y false: Facebook is not a state. On the other\, the article reflects the 
 growing unease amongst the public and within academia that technology corp
 orations like Facebook exercise power beyond which can be expected of mere
  corporations—and that may be more like or on par with states. In this p
 resentation\, I will explore how the enforcement of property on and throug
 h the “cloud” has created new power dynamics between corporations\, st
 ates and individuals. For example\, Facebook routinely locks users out of 
 their accounts\; Google has prevented users from accessing their own Googl
 e documents if they are found to include “terrorist” content\; and Ama
 zon’s AWS caused the alternative media site Parler to go entirely offlin
 e when they terminated their service agreement after the Capitol Hill atta
 cks. Additionally\, states themselves are currently outsourcing much of th
 eir own digital infrastructure to corporate cloud computing providers. I w
 ill examine how corporations may have more control over individuals\, and 
 rely less on the state\, in enforcing property rights by examining the eff
 ects of Amazon’s Internet of Things\, the use of landlord tech\, and how
  other “smart” property like cars may be remotely controlled.
LOCATION:Darwin College\, Richard King Room
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