News Analysis NEW DELHI—Just as there is a physical world, there’s a virtual world. Gamers and app developers call it the meta-sphere, and it daily engages billions of real-time people. Predominantly controlled by Chinese entities, the meta-sphere gives the Chinese regime information that’s needed to control behavior, as well as a platform for censorship and propaganda. India banned Chinese mobile applications because, according to James Lee, a former hedge fund manager who has two decades of experience investing in the gaming industry in the United States and Hong Kong, these apps were feeding into the metadata of the Chinese regime’s artificial intelligence system. In June 2020, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said the apps were “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of India, security of state, and public order.” However, a ban by a single country isn’t sufficient because the meta-sphere is fed by investments that the …
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