Plenty of other countries have similar, or even stronger consumer privacy protection laws. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine the US eventually becoming

Plenty of other countries have similar, or even stronger consumer privacy protection laws. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine the US eventually becoming the outlier to the point they have a sort of self imposed "great firewall". The rest of the world will continue on without them, especially as the ~middle class~ population explodes in countries where there previously wasn't one. The US is really only the "center of the Internet" for primarily English speaking countries, as the others have regional variants of popular US based services. There is no real reason why things wouldn't just split out to Europe and Oceania even more.