There’s a massive legal and societal infrastructure built up around controlling access to information: patents, copyright, trademarks, libel, “cancelling”, obsc

There’s a massive legal and societal infrastructure built up around controlling access to information: patents, copyright, trademarks, libel, “cancelling”, obscenity, non-disclosure, trade secrets, security clearances, professional licensing, peer review. China is a threat to this to the extent they can build up a second independent system that rivals it.