The TikTok ban and RedNote’s rise expose a grim truth: the dream of a borderless Internet is unraveling as the US and China wage a battle for digital control
“In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”
destruction may be the result of failure to control or even resistance to control. Why all these generalizations? There are so many variables in uncountably different situations.
I’d argue profit and control are two side of the same coin
“In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”
not necessarily
Please elaborate
some profit from things getting out of control
some give up on profit to have control (you may say that control is their profit, but i’m taking profit literally.
the power to destroy a thing is complete control over it
not necessarily, again
destruction may be the result of failure to control or even resistance to control. Why all these generalizations? There are so many variables in uncountably different situations.