Just a hypothesis: the fact that there's no need for an American firewall might be a consequence of the information controls being enacted at the level of platform moderation, or DNS resolution.
(I agree with you about authoritarianism in a political sense, but I'm trying to look at the informational "water" in which we're swimming in).
(I agree with you about authoritarianism in a political sense, but I'm trying to look at the informational "water" in which we're swimming in).