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USA succeeded in colonialising and creating pockets out of internet. They destroyed freedom of the internet and digital web themselves.
The future will be Fediverse, not these intranets and echo chambers. Free of nation control, free of surveillance, free of protocol iron grip control and free of jurisdiction.
Yes, soon after when there is only one world united, with people who deserve to be named as Homo Sapiens, without misery, hunger and wars. Meanwhile there are only minority networks and large US monopolies that control all the rest, even the politicians we vote for.
It only takes time before the individualist and selfish starts to kneel to being dependent and becoming a part of the collective society. Individualist boundary lines if tried to be drawn onto society results in what is happening to the world currently, and these lines are made only to get blurred.
Exactly. They should rather adopt things like Mastodon, and Friendica in schools, especially in countries like Russia, Iran, Cuba and so on, hosting it locally, to lessen their dependence on US-based Twitter/Facebook.