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Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 05:18:03 JST Joe Ortiz

The Splinternet, where there's many different versions of the internet depending on where you live, has officially taken place.
Although it has been in the works for years, I feel today is the official start of that thanks to Apple.
Some articles on the Splinternet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinternet
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/The-splinternet-explained-Everything-you-need-to-know
https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2022/how-to-protect-the-internet-from-becoming-the-splinternet/
#splinternet #internet #fragmentation #laws #regulation
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  Splinternet
  
  The splinternet (also referred to as cyber-balkanization or internet balkanization) is a characterization of the Internet as splintering and dividing due to various factors, such as technology, commerce, politics, nationalism, religion, and divergent national interests. "Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it", wrote the Economist weekly in 2010, arguing it could soon splinter along geographic and commercial boundaries. The Chinese government erected the "Great Firewall" for political reasons, and Russia, has enacted the Sovereign Internet Law that allows it to partition itself from the rest of the Internet, while other nations, such as the US and Australia, discussed plans to create a similar firewall to block child pornography or weapon-making instructions.Clyde Wayne Crews, a researcher at the Cato Institute, first used the term in 2001 to describe his concept of "parallel Internets that would be run as distinct, private, and autonomous universes." Crews used the term in a positive sense, but more recent writers, like Scott Malcomson, a fellow in New America's International Security program, use the term pejoratively to describe a growing...
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  The splinternet explained: Everything you need to know
  
  from @AmandaHetler
  
  Learn about the splinternet, and how it affects the global internet and limits what people can access online.
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  Resource Library: Papers, Briefs, Reports, and more - Internet Society
  
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  Reports, papers, and other documents about the Internet issues around the world.
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  Ben S. (hunterz@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 05:30:15 JST Ben S.
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  @joeo10 what did Apple do this time?
  
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  Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 05:35:56 JST Joe Ortiz
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  @HunterZ If you read @Techmeme's feed over the past two hours plus you see what I'm referring to. https://techmeme.com/river
  Apple's restricting many of their upcoming changes to the EU only for a TLDR version.
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  Ben S. (hunterz@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 07:13:57 JST Ben S.
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  @joeo10 @Techmeme ah, so EU regulators probably forced Apple to do some good things, and Apple decided to make sure that nobody outside of that region will benefit.
  
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  Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 07:27:11 JST Joe Ortiz
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  @HunterZ Exactly, hence the Spinternet where one region has a much different internet than the other. It's only going to grow even wider.
  
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  Ben S. (hunterz@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 08:02:51 JST Ben S.
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  @joeo10 it would probably help a lot if the US wasn't so impotent when it comes to regulating tech.
  
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