Facebook, google, and the others in the big five are giant western survelliance arms of the US state, funneling and storing communications, no matter how small or trivial, into their data farms. The power for propaganda, social media influence, advertising, and regime change / coups isn’t something we can even put limits on at this point.
Countries who allow this surveillance by foreign powers are extremely naive; your country’s comm systems should be owned and controlled by those states themselves.
The PRC is way ahead of the curve on this, whereas countries like India or those in Europe for example naively let the US control 99% of their social media landscape.
This isn’t isolationism either, If you want to let foreigners join and use your own social media, that’s perfectly fine, but it should ultimately be under your own control.
There’s a second huge aspect to this which is allowing domestic industry to develop. There’s a reason that China and Russia are basically the only countries that have their own domestic alternative to Google, FB, and Amazon. Letting in giant US companies unchecked means that local companies will never have a chance to get off the ground. Ensuring digital sovereignty is just as important as having control over the media space.
Facebook, google, and the others in the big five are giant western survelliance arms of the US state, funneling and storing communications, no matter how small or trivial, into their data farms. The power for propaganda, social media influence, advertising, and regime change / coups isn’t something we can even put limits on at this point.
Countries who allow this surveillance by foreign powers are extremely naive; your country’s comm systems should be owned and controlled by those states themselves.
The PRC is way ahead of the curve on this, whereas countries like India or those in Europe for example naively let the US control 99% of their social media landscape.
This isn’t isolationism either, If you want to let foreigners join and use your own social media, that’s perfectly fine, but it should ultimately be under your own control.
There’s a second huge aspect to this which is allowing domestic industry to develop. There’s a reason that China and Russia are basically the only countries that have their own domestic alternative to Google, FB, and Amazon. Letting in giant US companies unchecked means that local companies will never have a chance to get off the ground. Ensuring digital sovereignty is just as important as having control over the media space.