(edited for tone) It's not just the US. Countries around the world are slowly coming to the realization that they can really only regulate the portions of the

(edited for tone) It's not just the US. Countries around the world are slowly coming to the realization that they can really only regulate the portions of the internet housed within their legal jurisdictions, and that data sovereignty matters. Is the US splitting the internet? That's debatable. I think we started the process with the Patriot Act. That led to multiple countries passing new privacy and data localization laws (GDPR in Europe, Data Localization in Russia). I believe that the current proposals coming out of State are best characterized as a (clumsy) attempt at data localization through executive fiat. Of course, this could also just be revenge for a bunch of TikTok users trolling the president pretty hard.