X @Balaji

The Internet is indeed ideologically descended from American libertarianism (and progressivism).But demographically, it has very heavy influence from Asian Americans as well as Asia in general. And from all the other demographics that preponderate in tech, from Persians to Eastern Europeans.From your list: Russians (Yandex, Vkontakt, Telegram) and Chinese (both diasporic and PRC) have had an enormous influence on the Internet, arguably more than the British in recent years. The Dutch did via ASML but not In ...