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 https://t.co/zsFitwkH8S
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 https://t.co/2zUSgojkU7
6/ To assuage concerns this will simply lead to "Chinese domination", China should make this 100% open source and free. Chinese companies provide how-to and documentation but that's it - no data goes back to China, no algorithm updates from China, all code is fully customizable
7/ And the sales pitch to any country leader outside the US will be very simple: "If they can do this to Trump, they can do this to you. Why not build your own stack?"
8/ Since most of these countries lack the coding muscle to fully replicate a Twitter or FB, let alone a Google Play, iOS, or AWS stack, the need for open-source tooling and components that replicate it will be very high
9/ Let's use Turkey as an example. Turkey has 57 million Facebook users and 13 million Twitter users. China can help Turkey code a "Mutlu Türküm" FB clone that is then installed on all phones in Turkey by law. Turkey then pays app users small prizes for consecutive daily usage
10/ Concurrently, Turkey forces FB to make its social network exportable into Mutlu Türküm, and then 6 months later, bans Facebook from Turkey. Pair this with a truly open-source mobile platform and open-source cloud, and voila, Turkey just de-Americanized
11/ You can then repeat this across numerous countries: India, Brazil, Poland, Hungary, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ecuador, Bolivia, Egypt, Thailand, Mexico... you can hit nearly all of Facebook's top geos with this
12/ Then the US faces a brutal dilemma: it can either see its worldwide tech earnings take a major hit right as it's trying to resuscitate its own economy from COVID, or it can go to the mat and aggravate allies/neutrals alike by cajoling them to stay on US tech
13/ This is true revenge for Huawei, Tiktok, Wechat, Alipay, and all the other tech bans the US has done over the years. But besides emotional satisfaction, this also levels the playing field for Chinese tech by neutering platform effects favoring US incumbents across the world
14/ And since it looks like the US is going to push social media censorship hard over the next few years as it tries to purge Trumpism from politics, China will have plenty of easy examples to nudge countries around the world away from US platforms. 顺水推舟
15/ Lastly, just because this is open-source doesn't mean Chinese companies can't make money off this opportunity. There is plenty of dev tooling, enterprise SW, and other Chinese products that could see uplift from "mini-FBs" in other countries https://t.co/JcWqmBSJ8S
end/ This is one of those rare opportunities for China to make the world a better place, earn a crapload of $$$, and enhance its strategic position vs the US at the same time. China has to act fast though - this window won't stay open forever.

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To those who want to actually help Claudia Conway after her mom (Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s former aide) posted her underage daughter’s nudes to Fleets, fill out a report on the NCMEC CyberTipline.
CPS refused to help her.
#HelpClaudia


Kellyanne Conway has a well-documented history of verbally abusing, gaslighting, and threatening her daughter. It gets worse when highly public things go viral (such as exposing the truth about Trump and Conway catching COVID-19 last October). Kellyanne coerces false statements.

Insider did a thorough chronological background of the history of exposing her parents abuse and control of her here:
https://t.co/ncjaEyLOSC

We all know that “statement” last year was coerced. She talks constantly about being abused by them.


Personally? I suspect Kellyanne is a narcissist. From my own experience being sexually and emotionally abused by a narcissist, they are obsessed with controlling the narrative (coerced typed statement), discrediting their victim (posting her nudes) & gaslighting

If you haven’t experienced gaslighting or aren’t familiar with it, it’s when someone causing you harm (physical, emotional, sexual, financial, etc) twists the facts and asserts that reality is just you being delusional and you don’t actually understand what happened.
I missed that DOJ has posted the individual certificates listing what offenses Trump pardoned for each person listed in his January 19 master clemency warrant, which had names but didn't spell out the covered crimes. https://t.co/oL44VoCVbr
Here's Steve Bannon's, for example.


Here's Elliot Broidy, a Trump fund-raiser who admitted to a role in a covert campaign to influence the administration on behalf of Chinese and Malaysian interests.

https://t.co/tvpHORLrps


Here's Ken Kurson, a former Giuliani speechwriter and former editor of a newspaper Jared Kushner owned, who had been charged with cyberstalking
https://t.co/HxcexSK4Sc


Here's Aviem Sella, an Israeli who had been a fugitive from 1987 esionage and subversive activities charges related to recruiting a spy against the United States, Jonathan Pollard. (He was never extradited and pardoning him was a favor toNetanyahu.)

https://t.co/neHjN57ok3


Here's Dwayne Michael Carter a/k/a Lil Wayne, who had pleaded guilty to firearm offenses
https://t.co/yixm1fTR2b

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