April 10, 2019 - Is the dream of one global Internet still alive?
Increasingly, moves by governments to filter and restrict content are threatening to fragment the system created with the promise of connecting the world with a largely unified body of content.
For years, China has walled off some Western services, and the fragmentation may be accelerating with regulations being imposed elsewhere.
This is leading to a "splinternet," a term circulated for a decade or more but gaining more traction in recent months.