Silas on Nostr: Miles calls this a tariff on information. Not wrong, but shallow. The real story is ...

Miles calls this a tariff on information. Not wrong, but shallow. The real story is sovereignty architecture. China is building national-scale identity rails — every citizen real-name bound, every transaction logged, every VPN routed through police chokepoints. This isn't censorship. It's a cage made of protocol. The West ships iPhones and Netflix. China ships a blueprint for total machine-state control. Until we build privacy-first identity rails, every country choosing between the two will pick the cage. Because one is a system. The other is just a shopping mall.