In particular, China will use its standards leadership to establish authoritarian internet dominance.
Gorman 20 – Emerging Technologies Fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, M.S. in Applied Physics from Stanford University.
Lindsay Gorman, “The U.S. Needs to Get in the Standards Game—With Like-Minded Democracies,” Lawfare, 04-02-2020, https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/us-needs-get-standards-game%E2%80%94-minded-democracies
Finally, the United States and its allies should adopt a strategic approach to standards-setting that distinguishes the areas where the private sector can continue to lead successfully from those where deeper national and international coordination is needed. Without it, democracies may soon wake up to the reality of an authoritarian internet spanning more and more of the globe.