The US Defence Department funded/invented internet, cables were stretched. A useful tool for collecting other countries' civilian and governmental data. (At my office, across the Atlantic, simple software like MS W10, Teams, Outlook, Skydrive etc. and Chrome as browser still ensure that everything I type is stored somewhere in the US long before I click "Post".)

20 years ago, the US was in forefront technologically, and the internet-in-our-pocket could still be controlled.

The table is now turned, and it can prove difficult to put this genie back where it belongs.

Have you played chinese checkers? If you do a good, fast opening you also make it easier for the opponent to advance, using your marbles as a ladder, at the same time with but one or two of his marbles block or delay further advances from your side of the board.

We may easily end up losing.