Could every game developer and internet service pulling their services from China completely compel the population to try to change their regime?
I know if suddenly my entertainment was taken away I would flip my shit if it was my government that was responsible.
Edit : To offset potential cost to companies, could this behavior be subsidized by our government?
It's certainly subsidized by China, so yes.
Continuing your thought. In the past, wars were fought physically by damaging the opponent. We are at a place in history where we can fight not with fists and bullets, but with entertainment.
Like national rap battles.
Wars were fought over resources: water, oil, food. Now they are fought over games, movies, ... products.
Instead of war winners being those who can inflict the most harm on the opponent, maybe now we can shift that into the winner being the most entertaining.
This could be a good thing.
Not sure if sarcastic or genuine, but er... you know that this used to be called "soft power"? As in America used to have all this soft power and made the whole world worship how awesome American life is? Like, even Rammstein sang about how "we all live in Amerika / Amerika ist wunderbar"?
How would you even know, when all your news is telling you it's the fault of those nasty foreigners?
It's been clear in recent years that even an ostensibly 'free' media results in some people with very strange ideas of reality. It must be so much worse when all the messages are curated.
Been there, done that. It was called "soft power", and the US used to wield it in spades.
>To offset potential cost to companies, could this behavior be subsidized by our government?
Your government used to. Hollywood wasn't built in a day, you know.
>Could every game developer and internet service pulling their services from China completely compel the population to try to change their regime?
I'm dying here...