Re:President of Mexico warns about Silicon Valley censorship
by mech422 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:44AM
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I would have thought the smaller countries would have an easier time of it - they don't have to build as big. Sorta like how Scandinavia got high speed internet rolled out much faster then more populous countries.
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Re:President of Mexico warns about Silicon Valley censorship
by fuoqi on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:52AM
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Don't forget about network effects. Assuming we are talking about centralized solutions, value of social networks (and of similar services) rises super-linearly compared to its total number of users. So it's another factor why it's much easier for big countries to build their independent infrastructure compared to a smaller ones.
Re:President of Mexico warns about Silicon Valley censorship
by mech422 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:13AM
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>>Don't forget about network effects.
Hyper-localized services are also popular - 'neighborhood' and local shopping, etc. I really don't see making services for say, 35ish million population like Canada, has being difficult compared to making services for 320ish million like the US has. There are a number of social media,etc. that get 50M MAUs, so its not a 'google scale' problem by any means.
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