> If, to be available in a given country, the platform should commit to respecting the law in that country, wouldn't that kill the universal Internet as we know

> If, to be available in a given country, the platform should commit to respecting the law in that country, wouldn't that kill the universal Internet as we know it? Personally, I'm interested in the Mastodon experiment in this regard. ... and I think it's possible that the answer is "Yes, and that's kind of okay." It's not out of the realm of possibility that in a world as diversely-governed as ours, one global Internet was actually an undesired goal. We've been running the experiment for awhile now, and it's entirely possible people aren't well-kitted to be exposed to everyone else all of the time. When I was younger, I bashed the Great Firewall as obviously unworkable, but maybe I was mistaken (besides, take a step back and one realizes that there's plenty of content the US also compels dominant service providers to censor, so it's not like the land of the First Amendment has clean hands on this topic, with the added bonus that techno-hegemony implies that US law tends to end up shaping "what the Internet looks like", so perhaps there's good reason to Balkanize it).