But it’s not just the PRC in a sense that is demanding particular constraints. The Indian government is starting to make claims about data localization, and the European Union is obviously starting to embed its own demands around citizen privacy. And in the US of course we’ve seen some moves that are really with respect to certain Chinese companies, but they would also apply to other companies, presumably. So you have this drive away from the heartland of the pulse of that open internet culture that we talked about at the beginning. And as you observe this, what do you think that format of that governance looks like? Is it that we end up with some trusted corridors between regions and some untrusted patches of the internet, or is it that we end up with a lot of closed national internets and you have to do some really close checking as data comes into your autonomous area? What do you think it ends up looking like over the next couple of decades?

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