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1/ US tech's ban of Trump gives China a once-in-a-decade opportunity to reset the global tech ecosystem in its favor. China should pay its tech firms to package and release an open source social media app, open source app store and mobile stack, and an open source cloud stack
2/ The blowback from bigtech doing this is going to be the balkanization of the internet. Every country + the EU is going to go for their own social media / mobile / cloud stack now @passluo
3/ China obviously has a trust deficit with other major tech ecosystems, so Chinese apps will have trouble winning worldwide, but it can get around that by making it so that *no one* can dominate the global commons in the way that Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple currently do
4/ Providing a global toolkit to "de-Americanize" your tech stack will be a winning thesis in the 2020s. Besides the EU, for example, India is also concerned about US domination of its social communications channels @bhushan_gyan
5/ And because China booted out US tech firms early, it has a head start in having sufficient software muscle to provide easy, semi-assembled clones that other countries can just pick up and operate - and critically, scale and distribute by fiat
2/ The blowback from bigtech doing this is going to be the balkanization of the internet. Every country + the EU is going to go for their own social media / mobile / cloud stack now @passluo
3/ China obviously has a trust deficit with other major tech ecosystems, so Chinese apps will have trouble winning worldwide, but it can get around that by making it so that *no one* can dominate the global commons in the way that Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple currently do
4/ Providing a global toolkit to "de-Americanize" your tech stack will be a winning thesis in the 2020s. Besides the EU, for example, India is also concerned about US domination of its social communications channels @bhushan_gyan
This is all much bigger than US politics.
— balajis.com (@balajis) January 9, 2021
It is a matter of national security for India, Israel, and every other country to maintain a sovereign communications channel for their leaders to reach their people directly.
The world cannot be ruled by American corporations. https://t.co/2dDtcOICQ8
5/ And because China booted out US tech firms early, it has a head start in having sufficient software muscle to provide easy, semi-assembled clones that other countries can just pick up and operate - and critically, scale and distribute by fiat
How would countries build sovereign apps?
— balajis.com (@balajis) January 9, 2021
1) Clone the features of WeChat, FB, or Twitter, which is much easier than developing from scratch
2) Encourage or requirr citizens to sign up, which is much easier if you\u2019re a state
That\u2019s product and distribution respectively.
1/ The polls have closed and it seems you'd like me to expose a 'China Watcher', so here goes....
2/ Our China Watcher today is James Lin, a respectable professor for a respectable school with a sizeable Chinese student body
3/ How did I hear about James? Well, a few months ago, someone sent me these screencaps
4/ He tags me and invites me to take some courses... then blocks me. I'm intrigued, what is this guy hiding?
5/ To start with, some standard China Watcher stuff, such as "China’s economy is a house of cards and will collapse! Also US military flexing on China’s borders = totally innocent"
What topic would you like to read in my next Twitter thread?
— The Daily Mao (@TheDailyMao) December 10, 2020
2/ Our China Watcher today is James Lin, a respectable professor for a respectable school with a sizeable Chinese student body
3/ How did I hear about James? Well, a few months ago, someone sent me these screencaps
4/ He tags me and invites me to take some courses... then blocks me. I'm intrigued, what is this guy hiding?
5/ To start with, some standard China Watcher stuff, such as "China’s economy is a house of cards and will collapse! Also US military flexing on China’s borders = totally innocent"