Welcome to the ’splinternet’ : Trump adds to fractures in worldwide web
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The U.S. has mostly opposed the balkanization of the internet into global factions, but experts said two new executive orders may help change that. It may not be possible to have a worldwide internet, after all. Tech policy experts said Friday that the idea of the internet as one global, unifying phenomenon was at stake after President Donald Trump took the sudden step of announcing bans on two popular Chinese apps, TikTok and WeChat, calling them security risks. It was an extreme (...)
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