Pretend that you are a tyrant in the West. You want to control what ideas people encounter. How do you do it? Mobile data shutoff is possible but not practical since so many mobile data services exist in the West, and the state owns none.…

Tyranny begins with the control of information. The West stands upon the precipice of this control. Almost all information passes through just a few tech platforms in a global bottleneck of information, making the total control of information…