if not, then we at least need indigenous social networks, rather than ones controlled by foreign states. Dependency on the US internet was cool for a long while but its national security priority for every country to run their own, walled off internet, ideally one which is nonetheless interoperable with others.

I was reading a biography about PBS and Mister Rogers - and it's fascinating to see the high hopes everyone had for a non-commercial TV channel. TV was a new medium, and the idea was to create high-quality alternative programming - specifically to address problems they were seeing.