It's ironic because they talk about openness being an important ingredient to the metaverse yet they think about the metaverse through only a political lens. It's like how Westerners are brainwashed into thinking political freedom is important for innovation. How do they explain how the West is in so much fear of Chinese innovation that they're openly discussing how they have to destroy China's economy to stop it from beating the West? Apparently China has to open up to new ideas especially from the West but they're working to close out China in their world. That's why TikTok is beating them while nothing new is coming out of Silicon Valley. You see US social media platforms trying replicate TikTok because they didn't think of those ideas. They're the ones who want to control content. Their world has always been only a one-way street. If your life has been spent living in a 6X6 cage, they can spin being able move around that twelve square feet as being freedom especially if that's the world you've only known.
Western experts use to say that China would restrict internet speeds to less than 1MB per sec because any more Beijing would lose control of communication between people in China. China today has one of the highest internet speeds in the world while the West is mired in 4G. The West only thinks about politics and why China has to open up to it because they want to be able to lie and manipulate to the Chinese people like they've already successfully done with their own. Just because they say they're for freedom does it actually make it so? Look at Republicans who hide behind freedom and democracy when they trying to deny from everyone else by enacting laws to make harder for others to vote. Ans they want to make everyone believe they're not lying and they care about the Chinese people's best interest and not theirs only...
