Baldur Bjarnason

... works as a web developer in Hveragerði, Iceland, and writes about the web, digital publishing, and web/product development

These are his notes

“This invasive and manipulative service is out-competing our domestic invasive and manipulative services, so we’re going to force it to sell to a domestic fund that outright gives retired gov officials a cut of the loot”

… is not a good look for a country that occasionally cosplays as a free market

Matt Huyck

Yeah. As usual you have read my mind. I don’t doubt that China would weaponize its access to the data because that is exactly what our intelligence services would do too.

Imagine the uproar if China tried the same thing with Facebook.. wait, it’s blocked there, isn’t it?