for - explanation - sanctions - chokepoints - US reserve currency

explanation - sanctions - chokepoints - US reserve currency - If a country is sanctioned, it means that they can no longer use the US dollar for trading for goods (like weapons) - If a sanction country tries to buy a weapon, then it must transact with US dollars because that is the currency everyone uses to trade with - Either that country has enough paper US dollars to trade, or they must do it electronically - However, if the country is sanctioned, those US dollar transactions are monitored by the US government and will be disallowed - So it is the electronic means of surveillance of US dollar transactions which make sanctions effective

Massive social media networks using algorithmic feeds and other programmatic and centralizing methods to interpose themselves between people trying to reach each other, often in ways which allow them to extract additional value from the participants. They become necessary platforms which create chokepoints for flows of information which Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin call "chokepoint capitalism".