...involved

Dog-whistle for "vagina"

But my dictator can beat up your dictator!

It will take a really annoying or long outage before people notice they've been screwed by Big Money.

It's hard to know what industry or company Xi is subsidizing, as their system is not transparent.

Give me 5 million and I'd do it, I confess.

This might mean that not enough cases are routinely mishandled? Will nobody think of the humble British bobby-on-the-beat and his rep for corruption, racism, sexism, domestic violence &c &c?

But "95% of international traffic" is not the same as "95% of traffic". You are slicing the wrong pie, Happy Thanksgiving!

That's the problem: they are not a web. The original idea of the internet was to have a web of connections so that a few cables or nodes going bad wouldn't stop data movement, it would route around the bad spots via going through adjacent parts of the web. Seems we have to return to the original vision.

Technically they usually route around damaged sea cables via a larger scale redundancy, such as through another continent, but the webbiness needs to be per sea based on the rate of damage so far.

"Epstein diddit"

Are you saying it's comparable to Kodak sitting on their digital camera patents from the 70's to avoid knocking film profits even if other camera firms are dabbling in digital?

Half of the human population doesn't think either, they just echo their favorite chamber.

I continue to use burned DVDs for backing up the critical stuff. Not perfect, of course, but not electromechanically-failure prone like a hard disk drive, not "terms of service" failure prone like cloud storage, and not "the charge magically held in the gate leaked away" failure prone. I have optical discs over 25 years old which are still perfectly readable.

Why doesn't Nvidia make more specific chips to compete with Google on such server farms? They have the cash.

They are sometimes wrong, conspiracy nuts are usually wrong.