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The balkanization of the internet is inevitable, now that we have two push forces towards that, a strong desire to stay away from other countries intelligence a

• mattlutze 13y ago
  This is my concern as well. It's somewhat inevitable that the Internet will end up politically divided. The boundary-less state the fledgling has had was, in American historical corollary, the great western expansion. Eventually though structure, regulation and political boundaries are inserted by institutions designed to do those things. Brasil building more connections to the rest of the world is a good thing for global infrastructure. Diversity and multiplicity is awesome. It'll be disappointing once they start tuning their national boundary firewalls and routers to avoid or block services and end up cutting N America out of S America (presuming Chile, Argentina etc. will start moving toward a Brasil-supplied internet).
  • antocv 13y ago
    The history with an open and free for all internet that we have enjoyed does inspire me, it is somewhat amazing in retrospect that it was so, despite not having an international organization to defend these principles. The fact that it happened, perhaps due to those ideas of freedom to share knowledge and connect with each other over wast distances and boundaries, makes me believe it will happen again, in another form. We will find each other, just like we did on bbs, irc and in various in-game chats and forums, perhaps next time in a field of ciphers, stenography and darknets, small lights of communities will spring up. Next stop, hyperboria.