Is the US about to split the internet?

Re:Is the US about to split the internet? by discordance on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:27AM (#24081543)

Rocket Internet, an old-ish tech company in Europe, makes its living off cloning And localizing US startup ideas before the US equivalent makes it to Europe. They’ve been doing it for years now.

I guess the diff is that Europe is still an open market as opposed to China.

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Re:Is the US about to split the internet? by jariel on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:30AM (#24081573)

Making clones is not a material part of this equation. It happens everywhere.

But when a nation puts up barriers to trade, and grabs IP, then the government themselves back companies, using control of their nationalised banks and central bank - then it takes on a different form entirely.

Everything happening is a bit predictable.

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