Internet Fragmentation: Beyond “free” and “closed” | by Nick Merrill | CLTC Bulletin | Medium
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According to TechCrunch, the “splinternet” is already here.
10 min read Nov 26, 2019 -- Nick Merrill directs the Daylight Lab at the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity and writes a weekly newsletter about politics and the Internet. According to TechCrunch, the “splinternet” is already here. According to Fortune, it’s growing. Governments, firms, and citizens are again debating to what extent the Internet is, or should be, a global infrastructure for communication and commerce. In these debates, the Internet is supposedly becoming increasingly fragmented, subject to “splintering” across national borders. This debate’s extremes — a…
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