India
6 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 2, 2020 by Benedict Evans · said 54 times in 25 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
2021 32 mentions in 11 episodes 3 per episode
2020 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
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Nov 2, 2020 neutral
Evans: American cultural dominance over global internet regulation is over
“The first 25 years of the consumer internet was basically American, and the big companies, you know, the agenda, and therefore the kind of the cultural attitudes and the legal attitudes to how they should work were all American.
And you can, again, you can gen…”
Nov 9, 2020 neutral
Evans: Online harms stem from total connectivity, not algorithms or ads
“A couple of years ago, there was this whole thing in India of lynch mobs forming based on wild rumors that were spreading on WhatsApp, which was super interesting because WhatsApp is not, doesn't have an algorithm and doesn't have advertising. And so like thos…”
Dec 13, 2020 negative
Evans: WhatsApp proves harmful content is not caused by ads or algorithms
“WhatsApp doesn't have an ad model. WhatsApp has massive problems with harmful content. They have massive problems with rumors in India, for example, and people forming mobs and killing each other based on rumors on WhatsApp. They don't have advertising. They d…”
Jan 17, 2021 negative
Evans: WeChat failed in India because headquarters neglected local product needs
“WeChat launches this business in India and the Indian team keeps saying, we need you to do X and Y and Z. But India is so much smaller and so much less a show of attention. They can never get anyone on the phone in China to make, because the Chinese market is …”
Jan 17, 2021 neutral
Mar 20, 2023
Evans: US, Japan, and South Korea now comprise only a quarter of traffic.
“One of the charts in my presentation is that like a quarter of global internet traffic is USA, Japan, South Korea combined. And then another quarter is India and a quarter is China and a quarter is everything else. So like where I was 10 years ago, it was like…”