If you haven't read it already, you should check out Ben Thompson's article on The Four Internets (https://stratechery.com/2020/india-jio-and-the-four-internets

If you haven't read it already, you should check out Ben Thompson's article on The Four Internets (https://stratechery.com/2020/india-jio-and-the-four-internets/ https://stratechery.com/2020/india-jio-and-the-four-internet...). He talks a lot about what he thinks the future of the internet looks like in relation to geopolitics. Specifically, he makes the argument that the "American" internet is favorable to creating companies b/c it's effectively a wild west (with limited regulations and laws which favor the corporations, along with a relatively-rich user base). This allows many companies to start in America and then expand globally, which in turn allows the US to exercise soft power abroad. To change the status quo, in Europe in particular, would require either gov't intervention on what can be accessed via the internet (closer to what India is doing) OR more favorable laws to the creation of small tech cos (which unfortunately is not what regulation like GDPR accomplishes). Not saying I agree with all of it, but it's interesting to think about the nation-scale incentives to create global internet superpowers.