China’s Great Firewall and internal controls on web use and technology have forked what was a global web, as Josh Meltzer and David Dollar describe. Going forward, upholding freedom of information means ensuring that this forking doesn’t end in broader fragmentation. Put in a unique way, the large downside with Chinese technology exports is the downward pressure it places on democratic ideas like transparency and accountability, significantly when it comes to the governance of surveillance applied sciences like facial recognition. If democracies fail to provide compelling options, we’re going to find ourselves in a race to the moral backside.

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