Imagine there is no YT, no Twitter/X, no Facebook, no Netflix, no Amazon, no Apple, no Google to to search the Web, no chatGPT. Imagine there is no TikTok either (even though it’s not US). Just imagine there is no ‘giant’ tech from anywhere owning any app or service that millions if not billions of people are willing to use.
A world without any of those giant (US) tech companies and services that many of us take for granted.
In that world, what would you use the Internet for? How would you use it? And how much time do you think you would spend online, compared to now?
(my own answer in the comments)
Is wikipedia in or out? Because that affects my answer a lot.
Same for xkcd.com
Good point. I would say we should consider Wikipedia as big-tech not “corporate owned” and since it’s also open source we should be able imagine it would not be tied to being US.