Super App and Democracy
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Why an everything app is a bad news for liberal democracies and free markets
- Many technology entrepreneurs dream of an "Everything App", a smartphone application that will deliver everything to everyone on the planet.
- Elon Elon Musk has become the latest investor to declare an ambition to build such a super-app wanting to emulate the success of WeChat, a Chinese super-app.
- The Everything app presents massive risks to personal, economic, and political freedom.
- As John Gruber of Daring Fireball says, "It's no coincidence at all that WeChat is the only "" anyone can cite, and it comes from China, an authoritarian regime.
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