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China's Digital Inequality Dilemma: Open-Source Innovation vs. Control

China's fight against data-driven inequality could also hamper prosperity. Web 3.0 is one solution but will the Communist party embrace it?

Updated Dec 10, 2022, 8:07 p.m. Published Jul 20, 2021, 8:15 p.m.
A vegetable vendor in Shuhe, China. Apps that centralize vegetable vending have been among the targets of Chinese authorities' technology crackdown, out of fear they would eliminate jobs and increase inequality.
A vegetable vendor in Shuhe, China. Apps that centralize vegetable vending have been among the targets of Chinese authorities' technology crackdown, out of fear they would eliminate jobs and increase inequality.