73 China: "Great firewall," blocks US companies that don't follow CCP rules. BBC: "Is the US about to split the internet?" (archive.is) posted 5 years ago by altmehere 5 years ago by altmehere +73 / -0 30 comments share 30 comments share save hide report block hide replies
I've been predicting that social media will fracture into national ot regional silos because complying with the laws in various countries are often at odds with each other
Yup, like France threatening to fine Facebook for not deleting “hate speech” within 24 hours. I didn’t see any articles saying France’s actions threatened to break up the internet, though.
Ah yes, the classic "further entrench large companies then complain when you only have large companies" approach.
It's much more feasible for a giant company to enforce something like that - and to defend when it isn't - than some small website somewhere.
It also allows relatively easy false-flags of small companies.