I think a split internet is inevitable[0]. The "immune to borders" idea was one of those post-cold-war "end of history" ideas that will have a hard time holding

I think a split internet is inevitable[0]. The "immune to borders" idea was one of those post-cold-war "end of history" ideas that will have a hard time holding up over more and more decades and more and more conflicts. A lot of power over the internet is controlled by Western nations that have demonstrated self-interest time and time again, so at some point there will be more and more breakaway groups to escape that one potential method of control. [0] it's actually already happened, of course, just not in a way most Westerners are impacted by.