The clash between Elon Musk and Brazil highlights a dilemma that goes much deeper than social media. At its core, it’s about the complexities of a sovereign nation regulating a digital space overwhelmingly ruled by US corporations. Preventing people from using their favorite social networks is obviously not a solution, but the broader transformations of the digital landscape in the past decades underscore that it’s not enough to just “let the market rule.”
The clash between Elon Musk and Brazil highlights a dilemma that goes much deeper than social media. At its core, it’s about the complexities of a sovereign nation regulating a digital space overwhelmingly ruled by US corporations. Preventing people from using their favorite social networks is obviously not a solution, but the broader transformations of the digital landscape in the past decades underscore that it’s not enough to just “let the market rule.”