Actually the USA does have that. It is one of the only countries in the world that has full digital sovereignty, alongside China and the DPRK.
Thanks to its position of global hegemony, practically none of the US digital ecosystem is colonized by the products and services of other countries in the way that US products and services have colonized Europe for example and most of the global south.
And in the rare instances when it does happen that a foreign platform becomes popular in the US, the government quickly identifies that as a national security threat and seeks to either ban or acquire control over it, as we saw with Tiktok.
Yes you get glimpses of other countries because those countries are forced to use US platforms, so there is some intermingling, but the exchange is extremely unequal and US culture dominates.
I doubt, for instance, that you get even a tenth as much German cultural products and German media for example as Germany gets US cultural products and US media. And the German government has absolutely no say in what US citizens see on their own social media platforms.
Whereas what German citizens see on their social media platforms is strongly influenced by the wishes of not just their own government but also the US government, because they are on US platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google, etc. which obey US law.
The US digital ecosystem is sovereign because it is made up of overwhelmingly US companies controlled by the US government, which is precisely why other countries should get out of that ecosystem and build their own.
We have seen far too often US platforms used as vehicles for mass psychological operations to foment discontent, support color revolutions, influence elections, and destabilize countries that are not digitally sovereign.
None of this ever really happens in reverse to the US (despite farcical attempts to claim otherwise, such as the notion that Tiktok was being used by the CPC to influence Americans, or the Russiagate hoax).
Ah yes! I could have specified, that after my introduction to the Internet researching papers for school, my real introduction to the Internet was irc, chatting with people way above my intellectual development. Germans, Australians, Moldovans (one that was decidedly westernized, I used to tease him), Chinese, from the Iberian Peninsula, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Canada, before it was so so liberalized, India, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico (but I also lived and worked among Mexicans and Puerto Ricans), and more where I didn’t know their countries of origin. They introduced me to the undemonized/Western washed sides of communism and anarchy. Thanks for the fond recall.
I really didn’t spend much time in liberated spaces online after the early aughts, until I came to .ml spaces. US almost erased/diluted them all, and I nearly forgot almost all the irc explorations.
Actually the USA does have that. It is one of the only countries in the world that has full digital sovereignty, alongside China and the DPRK.
Thanks to its position of global hegemony, practically none of the US digital ecosystem is colonized by the products and services of other countries in the way that US products and services have colonized Europe for example and most of the global south.
And in the rare instances when it does happen that a foreign platform becomes popular in the US, the government quickly identifies that as a national security threat and seeks to either ban or acquire control over it, as we saw with Tiktok.
Yes you get glimpses of other countries because those countries are forced to use US platforms, so there is some intermingling, but the exchange is extremely unequal and US culture dominates.
I doubt, for instance, that you get even a tenth as much German cultural products and German media for example as Germany gets US cultural products and US media. And the German government has absolutely no say in what US citizens see on their own social media platforms.
Whereas what German citizens see on their social media platforms is strongly influenced by the wishes of not just their own government but also the US government, because they are on US platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google, etc. which obey US law.
The US digital ecosystem is sovereign because it is made up of overwhelmingly US companies controlled by the US government, which is precisely why other countries should get out of that ecosystem and build their own.
We have seen far too often US platforms used as vehicles for mass psychological operations to foment discontent, support color revolutions, influence elections, and destabilize countries that are not digitally sovereign.
None of this ever really happens in reverse to the US (despite farcical attempts to claim otherwise, such as the notion that Tiktok was being used by the CPC to influence Americans, or the Russiagate hoax).
Ah yes! I could have specified, that after my introduction to the Internet researching papers for school, my real introduction to the Internet was irc, chatting with people way above my intellectual development. Germans, Australians, Moldovans (one that was decidedly westernized, I used to tease him), Chinese, from the Iberian Peninsula, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Canada, before it was so so liberalized, India, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico (but I also lived and worked among Mexicans and Puerto Ricans), and more where I didn’t know their countries of origin. They introduced me to the undemonized/Western washed sides of communism and anarchy. Thanks for the fond recall.
I really didn’t spend much time in liberated spaces online after the early aughts, until I came to .ml spaces. US almost erased/diluted them all, and I nearly forgot almost all the irc explorations.