Evans: American cultural dominance over global internet regulation is over
Benedict Evans · How do you destroy a tech monopoly? · Nov 2, 2020 · at 33:58
Benedict Evans discusses how sovereign nations are rejecting US-centric digital governance models and First Amendment standards to enforce their own national platform laws.
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“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 generalize a bit too much, you know, clearly everyone has their own local laws, but, you know, by default, it was the sort of American cultural ideas of how free speech worked, and how censorship worked, and how, you know, monopolies worked, and that's over now, that, you know, this stuff has become so big and so important that, you know, the UK will pass its own laws, and we see Singapore, Australia, Brazil, people pass their own laws, India passed their own laws, well, no, we have our own laws, thank you very much”
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