By Gilbert Morris
Likely, that the US/Europe, South America and Caribbean would continue with US based internet so, social media.
However, the structural decoupling of Russia from the global system portends the initiation of a new social media paradigm in Central Asia; akin to China’s system with its own unique coordinates.
Autocracy and the demonstration of NATO’s impotence may yet lead to the same social media rollout in the Middle East. And so, as one has argued for a time, the world becomes a series of “digital bantustans”, which access is permission by interoperability protocols or hacking.
A Huxleyian world in the West and an Orwellian world in the East; the West propagating an Orientalist conception of the East. The East exasperated by a late imperialism in the West!
To be sure it would be a Hobbesian world both in the sense of its rivalist culture and in government as Digital Leviathans!
