From Europe’s enforcement of privacy rights to the Federal Communications Commission decision to roll back net neutrality rules, 2017 might have been the nail in the coffin of the Internet, at least as we know it, writes Mark Scott for Politico EU. “In its place is something altogether different: a Balkanized ‘splinternet,’ where your experience online is determined by local regulation.”
“Gone is the internet where people from Philadelphia to Paris pretty much had access to the same digital services. That basic tenet (the ‘world’ in the ‘world wide web’) is what made the internet the lifeblood coursing through our daily lives. It’s what was making countries’ borders increasingly meaningless and connecting people (for good and bad) in ways that seemed like science fiction just a few years ago,” Scott writes.
“In part, governments’ efforts to reclaim control over the internet is only natural. But without better cross-border coordination between policymakers from across the globe — including China, where draconian internet laws still limit free speech and other fundamental rights — this mad dash to regulate could have the opposite effect than what’s intended.”
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“Gone is the internet where people from Philadelphia to Paris pretty much had access to the same digital services. That basic tenet (the ‘world’ in the ‘world wide web’) is what made the internet the lifeblood coursing through our daily lives. It’s what was making countries’ borders increasingly meaningless and connecting people (for good and bad) in ways that seemed like science fiction just a few years ago,” Scott writes.
“In part, governments’ efforts to reclaim control over the internet is only natural. But without better cross-border coordination between policymakers from across the globe — including China, where draconian internet laws still limit free speech and other fundamental rights — this mad dash to regulate could have the opposite effect than what’s intended.”
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