A western corporation gives people free voluntary access to a certain part of the internet and in exchange sucks them for their data (in exactly the same way that it does this to perfectly middle and upper class western users of the same platform) and this is somehow comparable to colonialism, but with "data"?? Oh please, enough with the absurd cliche leftist caricatures about western technologies being hegemonic and so forth. Yes, some of them are, but why not ask the billions of FB users in the developing world if they'd prefer to have companies like Facebook simply leave under the present circumstances? I happen to live in a developing country where Facebook use is widespread. People criticize the company's crap regularly enough, but many of them also willingly, even happily use much of its platform. They're not being forcibly "colonized" in any coherent sense of the word.
Yes people in all parts of the world have different levels of data literacy. Understanding what one is giving up by allowing someone else to own so much data about one's self and community is not common anywhere but particularly uncommon among less privileged.
