I'm almost sure this is the case. Countries that don't lock things down are gonna get badly disrupted (not in the "good" tech-company sense) by other states tha

I'm almost sure this is the case. Countries that don't lock things down are gonna get badly disrupted (not in the "good" tech-company sense) by other states that do, and take advantage of the others' openness. And not just states, but stronger-than-many-states corporations. I expect democracies to be particularly vulnerable. I think a wide-open global Internet in anything like its current form will turn out to be one of those things that seems amazing and mostly-great when you look at it from an individual perspective but has very bad consequences at a population scale, far outweighing any benefit. Again, especially for democracies—we thought it would liberalize oppressive states, but I think we got that tragically wrong, and it may in fact be the instrument that unleashes the "chaos" and painful disorder that critics of democracy and liberalism have always predicted.