The Internet as we know it
Wendy M. Grossman,
net.wars,
Sept 04, 2020
If you can get past the user-hostile colour scheme (pro tip: use Firefox's Reader View to make it readable) this is a fairly intelligent view of the challenges facing the internet 'as we know it'. The danger isn't so much splintering so much as it is centralization and control. This is something that started with the mobile internet, which has largely been tightly controlled, and extends to proposals for a new internet protocol (IP) policy that would "shift control of the internet, both its development and its operation, to countries and the centralized telecommunications powers." Wendy Grossman writes, "This is a crucial threat to the interoperable bedrock of 'the network of all networks'. As the Internet Society explains, it is that cooperative architecture 'with no central authority' that made the Internet so successful. This is the first principle that built the Internet as we know it."
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