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> Do you think by 2030, all global governments and their citizens will voluntarily give away control over what they can consume and create to Google and Apple?
by pwinnski 4y ago
> Do you think by 2030, all global governments and their citizens will voluntarily give away control over what they can consume and create to Google and Apple?
It'll be Baidu and Tencent, but yes. This is already happening, and the internet is becoming more centralized, not less. Global traffic is balkanized, but it's split up among regional centralized controlling interesting, not no controlling interests.
> Betting in favor of the current centralized western oligopolies is betting on the belief that the digital economy won't grow, and that there won't be a regulatory crackdown in countries with stronger technological capabilities.
This is a false dichotomy. One need not bet for or against "current centralized western oligopolies" to bet against crypto fever dreams. One could assume that western oligopolies will be supplanted by eastern oligopolies, for example, or that the two will divvy up the market and coexist.
I would definitely bet in favor of large countries having separate social networks, because that's what we have now.
You seem to have a very western focus, and little to no understanding of how things are working in, say, China. Perhaps that's where you've gone wrong.
- lakomen 4y agoBalkanized is an interesting choice of word. It even has a Google definition, to divide countries and make them enemies of each other. Yet another victim of US imperialism. I weep for what was once a free and friendly nation. The kids nowadays are taught to hate their neighbors instead of learning how their parents or grandparents were part of a resistance that fought faschist Germany. That's just an aside. Nothing to do with the topic. I will never forget how my niece walked home from school on a road that was bombed by freedom bombs by the USA 30 minutes later. Not a single soldier has stood trial. Sorry that just struck a nerve, balkanized... is a word.
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- pwinnski 4y agoI'm truly sorry for triggering bad memories. I spent some time with a European refugee now living in the US, and it definitely helped shape how I think about things. I probably should avoid using the word in public spaces.
- ceejayoz 4y ago> Yet another victim of US imperialism. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Austro-Hungarian Empire into small nations in the Balkan Peninsula from 1817 to WWI was caused by US imperialism?