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Combined they amount to 0.4% of YouTube's MAU.

> What else should scientists do than challenging the status quo?

Refuse to work for Google. Shun and shame every single Google employee. Exclude them from intellectual circles. Those furthering our dystopian future should be treated as such.

> Segmenting the internet so people from different countries _can't_ interact with one another? Is that preferable?

Oh no, we enjoy interacting with each other. Just segment us off from the Americans and we'll be happy. /s

No country is willingly importing this divisive rhetoric. Aspirational young citizens who repeat the same formula within their home countries and are quickly rewarded with status and power. So the scourge continues.

Short-term, this toxic, zero-sum behaviour reaps havoc. Long-term, American culture capital will have been exhausted and the US will have signed its own death warrant.