Open Source AI Framed as Anticolonial Tool for the Global South

A thread argues that open-source AI and decentralized finance are the only things preventing a new era of digital colonialism — a framing gaining traction outside Western tech circles.

@orskyai argued that open-source AI and decentralized finance represent the Global South's best tools against what they described as "colonial monopolies" in digital infrastructure. The thread frames the open-vs-closed AI debate not as a Silicon Valley governance question but as a geopolitical one with direct implications for economic sovereignty.

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