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Increasing the social and economic importance of internet technology during pandemic of Covid-19
Abstract
During the Covid-19 pandemic, we notice many changes, of which those taking place in cyberspace may have gone unnoticed because the attention of most of the public was occupied with the serious problems associated with pandemic development. The transfer of virtually all human interaction activity to cyberspace, especially in the early stages of the pandemic, resulted in a tremendous increase in capital and technology for information technology corporations, which expanded their monopolistic dominance in many fields. The growth in financial income and social influence of Big Tech corporations continued to grow during the pandemic, affecting, among other things, restrictions on free speech, changes in health care systems, and the promotion of far-left ideologies. In this article, I attempt to describe these problems on the basis of only fragmentary data because a comprehensive and synthetic analysis is not yet possible. However, we can already make some conclusions and hypotheses today that will have important implications in the near future.
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pandemic, covid-19, big tech, capital structure, psychological profiling, internet censorship, network technologies, virtual realityMost read articles by the same author(s)
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