Earlier this year, Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) and Jared Cohen (former State Department official) predicted that we could see a gradual fracture of the World Wide Web into several mini-Internets at the regional or national level.
The Washington Post recently reported that we may actually be experiencing the early stages of the fracture. Last week, a group of German telecoms proposed that Germany develop a separate web and email system to protect itself from the U.S. and other nations’ surveillance practices.
While the plan doesn’t appear likely to be carried out anytime soon, the mere fact that it’s being discussed so widely and seriously is an indication that the web could indeed break apart.
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