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VEND. 17, SAM. 18 & DIM. 19 JANVIER 2025 - N°6930 NE PEUT ÊTRE VENDU SÉPARÉMENT DÉPÔT LÉGAL 100/1991 DIRECTEUR DE PUBLICATION KHALID BELYAZID

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Editorial Tech regulation Khalid BELYAZID

«M OROCCO, open up» says Alibaba; not the one from the Arabian to suit America’s interests and his personal opinions. He is already encouraging
Nights, but the Chinese giant. Of course, we have to welcome it, the far-right parties of major European countries; as far as smaller countries are
because it’s a retail and technology giant that’s making its mark on concerned, Musk will be able to truncate their borders, value, and history, deni-
world markets, and also because it’s challenging the dominant American giants. grating or sublimating them.
It promises low prices for Moroccans, and new markets for companies... in fact, Through locked AI, the word Morocco can generate a single image, a dune and
especially Chinese ones. a camel or the Casablanca Finance City (CFC) Skyline, depending on alliances
They see themselves as the world’s factory and Alibaba as the world’s store. and the prevailing whim.
All are boosted by huge subsidies and therefore subservient to the Communist It is not a question of closing ourselves off to these companies, but of regulating
government in Beijing, as are the American tech giants, also boosted and subser- our relationship with them, of stopping being naïve consumers, believing that they
vient to the capitalist government in Washington. So, the rebel Mark Zuckerberg are free-market platforms or social media of freedom.
takes off his hoodie and settles down. Facebook no longer fights fake news, and Our economy is made up of growing but fragile activities; a cavern that also
thus racism, the glorification of weapons and other values of the new America. contains our spirits, and which cannot be offered by means of magic formulas,
As for Musk, Trump’s biggest backer and mentor, he manipulates X’s algorithms not even Ali Baba’s «Sesame, open up», even if Ali Baba has become Chinese.o