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A comment on One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine. Parent comment

Re:One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine by criddell on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:08AM (#30918471)
> I wouldn't be so hasty to call time of death on the internet. We are all of us here discussing this matter, after all.

What has died is the idea of the internet. It is thoroughly balkanized now.

We're here on this internet talking. Things are different on other internets.

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Re:One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine by htrp on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:13AM (#30918533)
>What has died is the idea of the internet. It is thoroughly balkanized now.

The original design was that individual state level actors couldn't sever access to the internet without significant investment.....

We just balkanized the internet in a different direction (walled gardens)

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Re:One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine by krapp on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:17AM (#30918566)
We balkanized platforms on the internet. It does still take significant investment to balkanize the entire internet.

Platforms on the internet are not the internet, as much as people like to conflate them for the sake of the narrative.

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