On TikTok

- China banned Facebook & Twitter long ago
- India recently banned TikTok
- A US ban means we're truly exiting the age of a global internet...
- Or are we? Long term, we may get nations exercising "internet sovereignty" along with a decentralized crypto commons

The fundamental question around something like TikTok is the question of trust. What are they doing with the data? And can they prove it?

That's why open state & open execution is what comes after open source. Perhaps only protocols scale internationally. https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1123092897664880640

It's interesting to think of a few large internet zones (US, India, China, Russia, and so on). To scale beyond your home zone, you might need to turn your product into a (crypto?) protocol. Maximizing global profit may actually mean reducing control. https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

The best analogy for the future may be that crypto becomes the Law of the Sea. That's the legal code that governs what happens in international waters.
https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/oceans-and-law-sea/

The TikTok ban may be justified, but it also makes every content creator even more aware of the extent to which centralized platforms (or their regulators) can deprive someone of their livelihood at a moment's notice. This is yet another accelerant for decentralization.

Again, it may be justified. But the TikTok ban also puts another spotlight on the chokepoint that the App Store / Google Play duopoly represents.

One idea for routing around this: a mobile web browser that delivers full screen apps via pixel streaming. https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1109327113239158785