Network States

Is the Internet American?

That will be one of the most important questions of this young century.

so, @balajis.eth whats your interpretation? 

i’d say 40% meant the Internet is infrastructure. 22% probably the same. 

38% meant the Internet is content, data. 

Was that the message you wanted to deliver?

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@balajis.eth like different mindsets and “languages” we have or wdym?

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maybe a couple of years ago we could really look at the Internet separated by languages and it actually would l surprise us: for instance I heard reports Russian is the 2nd language of the web which makes sense if you think of the USSR (although I had not found a proof, it is commonly reported top-5 are distributed among substantial shares including Ru). I then realized the tragedy of gaining physical territory by a country in exchange for the digital territory. Ru speakers dumping big time. Dumb political moves. …But it was inaccurate given the AI era will bring the language barriers down to zero. Sooo, practically the original content language even doesn’t matter. As i see the future, most likely neither content nor infrastructure but the level of blockchain penetration will then define the answer to @balajis.eth ‘s question.

I was thinking along these lines. I was tempted to say that ICANN & IANA (also IETF & ISOC) control the Internet, so “no”. But if it comes to content, I could not really say. I don’t know how people elsewhere experience the Internet in their own language and ways. How much content is just invisible to me b/c of languages & networks? I don’t know which frame the OP meant.