In an interview with WW, Harvard political scientist and researcher Hussein Kalout said the new Big Techs arrangement is a risk to Brazil and that the country is not prepared to deal with this scenario.
“Big techs in the United States are a government. They are an instrument of projection of power. Trump understood that to master certain market and governments do not need weapons, need them. And that’s why they are influential such a new arrangement. For us it is a huge risk, ”Kalout advanced.
President Donald Trump has promised to spend trillions to assist Big Techs and develop Artificial Intelligence Technology (IA). Currently, Tesla’s billionaire and executive director Elon Musk is a special Trump government official and runs the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
The political scientist pointed out that Brazil has a great dependence on some large companies, such as the goal, which provides WhatsApp.
“If you cut WhatsApp, Brazil is in the dark. The country has a great dependence and it seems to me that there is no strategy, no clarity, how to bring this debate at the national level, ”said Kalout, noting that the discussion about what regulates and how to regulate the performance of these companies in the country is stuck in the country.
In January this year, the CNN It showed that the, arguing that the collection is reversed in digital inclusion policies.
The initiative was discussed in recent days among presidential advisors, who argue that the collection be reversed in digital inclusion policies.
