Originally posted as a Twitter thread on January 10, 2021

The internet drove instant, rich, free communication in a form humans have never before seen. With that comes good and bad.

*Right or wrong*, when the leader of a country is kicked off a massive communication network, it creates a geopolitical risk that will…

…likely undo this trend and create many regional, more siloed networks. It has to. It’s simply too much risk for another country to allow a foreign private company (or the US Govt which controls this particular private company!) to “control” the means of communication.

I had previously written about this re: payment networks (when I was at Visa, we stopped payment processing in Crimea…per US law). Again, right or wrong, friend or foe, it is TOO MUCH GEOPOLITICAL RISK for countries to allow their networks to be domiciled elsewhere. Fin. https://x.com/arampell/status/1158952157137297410