The World Is Not Enough – How To Reinvent The Internet | E. Morozov für Der Feuilletonist
▻http://blogs.sueddeutsche.de/feuilletonist/2014/01/20/the-world-is-noth-enough-how-to-reinvent-the-internet
As the world continues to digest the multiple abuses of American power unveiled by Edward #Snowden, some have expressed concerns that the Internet might soon fall victim to “Balkanization.” [Cf. ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/201378 ] The fear here is that, as national governments rush to limit their reliance on American communications infrastructure – which the NSA has no problem monitoring – they would also inadvertently fracture the global unity of the network, imposing artificial limitations and barriers that can cripple its future development and considerably complicate connections between users in different countries.
#infrastructure #cccp ; la métaphore de la balkanisation revient aussi quand il est question de #gouvernance_internet.