Mexico to abandon American and Chinese social media apps and build their own after Big Tech silenced POTUS

This is all much bigger than US politics.

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.Every sovereign needs its own basic internet infrastructure: hosting, payments, anti-DDOS.

Over the long term, crypto is the obvious choice for the 80% of the world population that is neither American nor Chinese, as well as large swaths of both Americans & Chinese.

This is now going to happen.

China is already US-independent when it comes to communication & payments infrastructure.

India, Israel, Russia are obvious candidates to go techno-autarkic next. Then perhaps the EU, South Korea, Japan, Brazil.

Crypto is the demilitarized zone.

To be clear, I respect what Jack & Zuck have built. These decisions are never easy.

But the world is much bigger than the US, which is only 4% of the world.

Decentralization away from US control is not just a technical imperative, it’s a moral one. Self-determination for all.

Mexico’s Obrador is denouncing this, and he’s on the left.

We may be about to see a global reverse bandwagoning against foreign social media companies.

Countries will build their own sovereign apps — and block or regulate the American and Chinese apps.

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