The Internet is breaking apart. Or is it? Recent moral panic around Internet fragmentation, or the “splinternet,” hides an uncomfortable truth: the Internet has never floated freely, untethered from political realities. But where does state power lie on the Internet? Where are the national borders? Where and how are they shifting?
A political geography of the Internet
A political geography of the Internet
A political geography of the Internet
The Internet is breaking apart. Or is it? Recent moral panic around Internet fragmentation, or the “splinternet,” hides an uncomfortable truth: the Internet has never floated freely, untethered from political realities. But where does state power lie on the Internet? Where are the national borders? Where and how are they shifting?