> I wrote here years ago that it is in every countries best interest to do the following: Been saying the same thing myself. Every major company should own the

> I wrote here years ago that it is in every countries best interest to do the following: Been saying the same thing myself. Every major company should own their own tech, media, etc stack. They should ban all competitors until they have their own homegrown champion. When india banned tiktok, I praised it thinking india will also ban facebook, google, twitter, etc in order to establish their own social media and tech ecosystem. Instead, the indian leadership just handed their social media space to facebook. China talked big about developing their own operating system, but seems to have limited it only to the public sector while microsoft, google and apple dominate the private sector. And lets not get started with the EU. Even though it's not a country, but the lack of participation by any european country in any major tech development of the past few decades is embarrassing. > Small countries can only partially achieve this level of independence, but all countries should try. Small to mid sized countries should form blocs of some kind to achieve some kind of independence. > I think the world is even more beautiful with more diversity. Exactly. What I despise are those who claim to support diversity while demanding everyone speak the same language, adhere to the same 'values', partake in the same culture, etc.