https://archive.vn/RlPp9 unherd BY ARIS ROUSSINOS Saturday, 9 January 2021
The Twitter purge moves us closer to a civilisational internet
Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter
Great American political divorce:
There’s no point American conservatives whining about free speech or unfairness or hypocrisy: American politics has moved beyond such abstractions, whatever anyone involved claims to think. It’s as pointless as complaining about the dissonance between the policing and reporting of one side’s riots versus the other: each side wants their riots supported by the state, and the other side’s quashed; their own rioters handled with kid gloves, and the other side’s shot: there’s nothing deeper to it. There are now two popular factions, who hate each other and wish for the other’s total destruction: Trump and Biden are just the avatars in wrinkled flesh of the two opposing popular wills.
Great European/Silly-Con Valley divorce:
To this end, an important point was made by the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell Fontelles this week. The debate about European strategic autonomy has hitherto focussed on the EU’s adoption of independent military capacity from the US, but its true ramifications are far deeper. First urging the return of strategic and medical industrial capacity to Europe from China, Borrell goes on to urge the avoidance of “excessive dependence on external suppliers” in the “strategic sectors” of “digital networks and cloud computing,” a clear reference to Europe’s dependence on the political whims of Silicon Valley oligarchs. As he states, “the aim is not to embrace autarky or protectionism, but to safeguard our political independence so that we remain masters of our own choices and future.”
At least someone in the Europe sees things clearly. A cucked EU official no less.
Californian globalists btfo
Europe can NEVER successfully pursue strategic autarchy because the continent is too resource poor for modern needs. This can ONLY lead to war! Free and global trade is essential for Europe to be relevant at all. I am all for getting rid of dependency on Silicuck Valley but it's pointless to do it if you only pick worse alternatives.
Yeah, because if you do international trade all your internet has to be from California.
As if Russia and China hadn't managed the herculan, legendary task of setting up a few servers and websites.
I don't mean just internet, the EU is clearly trying to reduce their dependence on strategic goods - oil and other energy sources, precious metals, important technology, skilled workers, etc. Internet is one of those things you can definitely do on your own, but where are you gonna get semiconductors for new phones from? Where are you gonna get your precious metals for phones for?
From an economic perspective, Germany and Japan both had the wish for economic independence in WW2 and it lead them both to the same conclusion: If other people won't trade it with you, you just have to take it by force. Economic interdependence is the best bet for peace. Of course you want some industries and sectors to be local (food!) but yea.. I think that reducing interdependence has the potential to lead to more serious conflict and I don't want that
Yeah, having your own servers and making at least some of your own medicine and protective equipment so they can't be held hostage, means World War 3 lol.