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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

one handy thing the CCP and Putin have demonstrated is you can just ban these companies from operating in your country. replacements will sprout up extremely fast

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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Brian
@thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social

There's definitely major downsides to dividing up the global internet into a collection of walled gardens but it's hard to argue in favor of letting powerful companies all headquartered in a single nation who demonstrably can't be trusted to behave themselves remain in charge of it all.

ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

if I were president of any country, I would be searching for any pretext, however thin, to do this to Meta and Vichy Twitter at least

jack
@jackalltogether.bsky.social

The refusal of western countries so far to respond to state-level threats like Elon has raised questions about the concept of Westphalian sovereignty in the post-globalism world

ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

I think Western leaders are by and large so coddled and timid that they can't believe what a fix they are in. you can drone strike the servers but you actually have to give that order

embellic.bsky.social
@embellic.bsky.social

the exact dynamics that makes software so attractive to wall st (extremely rapid scale up at 0 cost after product launch) makes them fragile against any determined political act to reshape the market