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I am strongly opposed to a Facebook Superplatform akin to WeChat. However, could we face a near future scenario where WeChat expands outside of it’s total domi
by chriselles 7y ago
I am strongly opposed to a Facebook Superplatform akin to WeChat.
However, could we face a near future scenario where WeChat expands outside of it’s total dominance of China and penetrates One Belt, One Road trade partners?
Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent(WeChat), and Huawei(BATH) are all well integrated into Chinese government/PLA strategy.
Could Zipf’s Law combined with Metcalfe’s Law apply here?
In the global digital geopolitical sense((geodigital?), are we better off with shaping and influencing the US devil we know, than the authoritarian WeChat devil we don’t, and can’t?
To me, this effort by Facebook is just another step in the macro war between geodigital operating systems.
Thoughts?
- acct1771 7y agoWe're better off decentralizing and empowering our citizens digitally with great tools and security.
- chriselles 7y agoCompletely agree. But isn't there a substantial risk that a centralised authoritarian platform/network could have a 1st place Zipf's Law like distribution with a decentralised/empowered network in a very distant 2nd place?
- acct1771 7y agoDefinitely. We should be pushing the sentiment of digital personal security/sovereignty the same way we pushed war material manufacturing during the World Wars. Tie it to freedom in mainstream media publications, and they'll all come running.
- chriselles 7y agoFreedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman is a Greta book in the US homeland industrial transformation in WWII. I hope you’re right and I hope it works. We are up against a well aligned and fused authoritarian juggernaught. Hopefully the most trusted and best value proposition platform wins.