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Arab Spring/Occupy probably expedited the timeline, but I've been noticing an increasing amount of country specific stuff on the internet over the last few year
by motters 15y ago
Arab Spring/Occupy probably expedited the timeline, but I've been noticing an increasing amount of country specific stuff on the internet over the last few years.
- pasbesoin 15y agoDo you mean with respect to identification/segregation of content by content providers, or with respect to geographic entities' attempts at censorship? Or do you simply mean more and/or more prominent sites using country code TDL's? The second, of course, we have. (Quip: "China was the prototype.") The first, with attendant variation of content (i.e. you get a different view of an individual Blogger blog depending upon whether you are e.g. in Sweden or in Italy) seems rife for efforts to more quietly and piecemeal "pick apart" the Internet's "common voice". Perhaps I'm being alarmist. But placed within the context of everything else that's going on right now with respect to Internet communication, it's worrying. The third I have no real problem with, although I find the many attempts to use country code TDL's to make "catchy" domain names to mostly be ineffective if not annoying. (I'll leave that at the level of personal preference.)
- motters 15y agoI mean a combination of explicit censorship (for example, access to sourceforge in certain countries) and also content providers attempts to control what is seen where (seems like BS to me).