Both the U.S. and #Canada are trying to escape the consequences of their actions. Canada chose own-goal vassalage to the U.S (so easily foreseen decades ago) and is now struggling with the consequences.
The U.S. is...<gestures widely>. The FCC order blanket-banning foreign #routers is one strategy: Surprise!, the world’s greatest arrogance machine pivoted to something unglamorous (they might have gone with “Trump Internet”).
Routers are less conspicuous, more commoditized, and yet found in every home. The policy ticks all the right boxes: recovering domestic production, de rigueur jingoism, and national security instrumentation.
#elbowsup can learn from this as we detach from American tech hegemony. What achievable strategies hiding in plain sight can we draw on?
#DigitalSovereignty for a middle power looks like "A.I. as a public utility", or "domestic cloud computing". They will be built with public money, then privatized at the next conservative regime. Or they’d be mediocratized by telecom giants that own sports teams, and later bailed out.
I’m tired. Save us from this "Civic Samsara" of Public and Private ambitions.
Kirk Zurell