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by makomk 2137 days ago
Forget TikTok and the US for a moment - just given the actions of China, the EU, and India, is there even such a thing as a global internet anymore?
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Why didn't you start with the actions of the US and US companies? Did you forgot about the many FB and Google scandals over the years? or you just don't care because they are your team?

The Internet never was "Global", it was always soft and sometimes hard controlled by the US. Now that other countries are applying the same recipe and "winning" all of a sudden that's a problem.

And it really is a problem, but it was a problem since the very beginning of the Internet, or do I need to mention the RSA backdoor, the Windows kernel backdoor, the amazing health of the ECHELON project even decades after the cold war ended?

Aside from the recent targeting of Chinese companies, what policies has the US put into place which specifically targets internet companies only and makes it difficult for foreign companies to have US customers?