“When closing number 4 of curseurs on the materiality of digital, we promised ourselves to think of a lighter, more open numberto the Internet that we love, that of sharing and cooperation.
But current events do not make our task easy. Of re-election from Donald Trump, with the allegiance of tech giants to his far-right policies, to the genocide in Gaza, digital technologies are playing a major role in the ongoing massacres, whether in their media or technological side. The file for this issue will therefore be devoted to these two aspects, with a series of articles discussing the industry armament and surveillance.
The affair of the explosion of Hezbollah beepers and walkie-talkies on September 17 and 18, 2024 revealed to the world what the activists·public freedoms and digital rights have already known for several years: Israel has a most developed technological surveillance and weapons industry. The Brussels Technopolice association will demonstrate in three stages the scale of this industry which is not only unfolding and continues to develop in Gaza, but is exported to us. They will then discuss Palestinian resistance during the time where famine once again threatens Gazan lives.
Faced with the silences and astonishment at this genocide, Pipas will expose three cases of technological complicity to show that it is possible to understand and act from here and put pressure on the international technology companies that fuel the Military Tech industry and the surveillance sector. We will talk about drones, but also what the Syrian archives manage to do with the testimonies. We will then delve into resistance to the security machine, at home in working-class neighborhoods, against the police or the algorithmic administration.”
