More likely a balkanised internet. I'll post a link to HN and you won't be able to access it because your country blocks it. The internet is already balkanised

More likely a balkanised internet. I'll post a link to HN and you won't be able to access it because your country blocks it. The internet is already balkanised to some extent --- linguistically, and by e.g. the Chinese firewall. Also video --- non-Americans can't watch the Daily Show on Comedy Central's website, and non-Brits can't watch Doctor Who on the BBC's website. But these are all either predictable or peripheral for most of us. A danger is that SOPA is the start of pulling the English-speaking internet apart into national not-terribly-interoperable zones.