Is the US about to split the internet?

Re:Is the US about to split the internet? by jiofih on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:35AM (#24080781)

There are only a handful of countries that restrict internet access: China, Lydia, Egypt, Myanmar, Russia, maybe a few others. All authoritarian regimes to some extent.

> China did not ban US companies

Blocking domains via a countrywide firewall is as close as you get to “banning”. If it was about following laws you’d enforce that through legal means like everyone else, and not brute force.

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Re:Is the US about to split the internet? by oasisbob on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:59AM (#24081862)

> There are only a handful of countries that restrict internet access

I agree with the thrust of your general argument, but feel it necessary to point out that the list of countries with substantial and automatic filtering mechanisms is much larger than that. Eg, I've experienced censorship in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India.

Legal means can still involve brute force; for example, when a court somewhere decides that a certain type of content is abhorrent and should be put on an automatic DNS blacklist that ISPs are required to use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surv...

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Re:Is the US about to split the internet? by lihan on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:38AM (#24080800)

I’m here more refer to the internet censorship.

Eg, they do exist in Australia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral...), Japan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Japan) etc..

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Re:Is the US about to split the internet? by dannyw on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:45AM (#24080859)

Australian internet censorship requires court orders at least.

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