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Such as the tiananmen square incident in the 1980s. - or, you know, to censor out content involving xinjiang, i which is a western region of china which has really kind of hogged i headlines recently because the us |says genocide is happening there. j so, in order to operate in china, |you have to play by these rules. j at some point in the past, google, facebook and twitter have decidedj they are not going to play by these i rules, and that's why they're out. | in effect, it's created a bit - of what i call a "splinter—net". so for example, i'm i in singapore right now. but when i used to b...

Clash? >> i think you are. i think you're going to have a splinter net really. you already see china going in a different direction than not only the u.s. but europe in terms of how they are thinking about the internet and regulating the internet. very tight ties between the state and tech firms there and unlimited ability to collect data. i spoke to several western data scientists that were envious of how easy it is to collect data. in china, as they were worried about the authoritarian impact of the data collection. so it is a very disruptive time to say the least. >> and zanny, let me ask y...

>> rana, do you sense as a result of all of this, you're going to have a chinese-american clash? >> i think you are. i think you're going to have a splinter net really. you already see china going in a different direction than not only the u.s. but europe in terms of how they are thinking about the internet and regulating the internet. very tight ties between the state and tech firms there and unlimited ability to collect data. i spoke to several western data scientists that were envious of how easy it is to collect data. in china, as they were worried about the authoritarian impact of the dat...