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> Now you know how the rest of the world feels. A lot of Americans have a tendency to think of their country as naturally owning the internet. I personally fin
by filleduchaos 6y ago
> Now you know how the rest of the world feels.
A lot of Americans have a tendency to think of their country as naturally owning the internet. I personally find it quite alarming.
- Nasrudith 6y agoDepends on what you mean by owning it. I personally accept it as depending on locality and trying to legislate outside your borders just makes you look like inssne, an unironic King Canute telling the tides to go back. I do acknowledge that the US throws its weight around diplomatically and tries to impose its laws as an international standard.
- filleduchaos 6y agoHmmm. It is difficult to put what I've observed into words but as an example: look at the way people are reacting to TikTok hypothetically enforcing Chinese norms and laws on the rest of the globe. Then look at the way people pretty much just shrug and make excuses when it comes to US companies actually enforcing US norms and laws on everybody else (e.g. Github banning people that are from countries the US doesn't like without pretty much no warning, or that time that Tumblr was blocking LGBT content from showing up in search because of the SESTA/FOSTA thing). On a pervasive level, it's in the way a lot of Americans on social media tend to assume that all content is necessarily intended for or addressed to them somehow. For instance many people I know have had an American hate train jump on their tweets that were talking about one issue or the other from a local lens - as though we should be constantly filtering ourselves and our language to cater to America's sensibilities. I've never seen quite that level of arrogance from anyone else.