The United States wants the world to choose: either they accept the dominance of Silicon Valley or fall into the hands of scary Chinese tech. But that choice makes no sense.
If we want better tech, it must be rejected in favor of another model that breaks up the monopolies and gives countries more power to shape their own technological futures.
@parismarx I read this as "gives countries to build own digital gulag with incompatible hardware, protocols, and software, where only one thing will be common - total censorship".
Lack of hardware, protocol and software compatibility is a way to learn the harsh way how digital state or corporate gulag works.
@parismarx I disagree with the "countries" part of the argument since it still leaves people subject to whatever nationalist or "think of the children" whims can get through the legislature or be imposed on then by an autocrat. But 100%, freeing people from corporate domination is as essential to their having civil liberties within their governments.
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