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theguardian.com
The splinternet: how online shutdowns are getting cheaper and easier to impose
The splinternet: how online shutdowns are getting cheaper and easier to impose
Iran has shown how plausible blackouts now are, with far-reaching consequences for the internet as we know it
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2026 at 10:34 AM
danhon.com
I think I will keep calling it the splinternet
November 25, 2024 at 4:27 AM
danhon.com
Walled gardens and company towns a splinternet make.
November 26, 2024 at 9:53 PM
zig.computer
splinternet incoming
March 7, 2024 at 9:36 PM
jasonkoebler.bsky.social
The Balkanized Internet / Splinternet is here for Americans

www.404media.co/behind-the-b...
But today I want to write about what I think the TikTok ban means for Americans and the Balkanization of the internet, or the “Splinternet” more broadly. The “open internet” is a wonderful concept, but in practice not everyone on the internet can see everything there is to see. Many countries—most notably China—have government-level censorship of certain parts of the internet, certain services are banned in certain countries, some ISPs and some governments around the world take a very hardline stance blocking, say, piracy sites. Until very recently, Americans by-and-large could pretty much access anything we wanted to on the World Wide Web. This has always felt to me like an immense privilege, and, honestly, one of the things that makes the United States a great place and a “free” place. I went to Indonesia last year, for example, and some very important parts of the internet—such as Reddit and also www.404media.co—were blocked and were only accessible via VPN. I went on a reporting trip to Cuba when it was first getting widespread access to “the internet,” and it was easier to find sites that were blocked than sites that were not, in addition to the widespread surveillance of what users actually are looking at and doing. That’s not something I think about when I’m in the United States, though surveillance of our browsing habits is something that’s becoming far more commonplace. All of that has changed recently. Americans no longer really have unfettered access to the “open internet.” PornHub is blocked in nearly a third of the country. Age verification laws are putting up barriers to accessing “adult sites,” which, as Sam’s reporting has shown, encompasses all sorts of things.
January 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
danhon.com
All the big platforms are on the splinternet, everything else is the internet
November 25, 2024 at 4:28 AM
drucillapam.bsky.social
A splinternet talvez não precise dividir a internet.

Basta dividir a percepção.

open.substack.com/pub/drucilla...

#Algoritmos #Percepcao #CulturaDigital #instHub
A Splinternet invisível: como algoritmos estão fragmentando a realidade sem você perceber
Não são governos isolando a internet — são sistemas moldando o que você vê, sente e acredita
open.substack.com
September 21, 2026 at 4:15 PM
hexmani.ac
splinternet soon 👀👀👀
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
parismarx.com
The United States wants the world to choose: either they accept the dominance of Silicon Valley or fall into the hands of scary Chinese tech. But that choice makes no sense.

If we want better tech, it must be rejected in favor of another model.
Embrace the splinternet
We’re being told to pick between US and Chinese tech. What if we don’t choose either?
disconnect.blog
May 2, 2024 at 3:25 PM
probgobl.in
Honestly, a Firefall style splinternet sounds pretty dece right about now.
pookleblinky.bsky.social Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Nov 14
Periodic reminder that it is a common cyberpunk trope that the internet has already completely collapsed into ruins under the weight of scams and spam and malware at least once before the story actually begins.
August 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
notatiktok.bsky.social
I know a lot of folks whose opinion is "it's a bad law but it's just tiktok, it's not the end of the world." I would encourage folks to read this as this implications are well beyond just a short form video app. Between this, the push for KOSA, and porn id laws, we are witnessing a splinternet.
January 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
spritewrench.com
The "Splinternet" is a fun term.

Old: The Matrix
Fresh: The Splinternet
September 19, 2023 at 4:03 PM
drucillapam.bsky.social
Milhões acompanham futebol, política e os mesmos acontecimentos.

Mas quem decide a ordem em que cada pessoa encontra aquilo que todo mundo parece estar vendo?

drucillainsthub.substack.com/p/a-splinter...

#Algoritmos #Percepcao #Confianca #instHub
A Splinternet invisível: como algoritmos estão fragmentando a realidade sem você perceber
Não são governos isolando a internet — são sistemas moldando o que você vê, sente e acredita
drucillainsthub.substack.com
August 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
fack.bsky.social
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinte...
Splinternet - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
September 18, 2024 at 1:45 PM
nonniebear.bsky.social
www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia... It's already happening 🩵🌏🌊‼️
Definition of splinternet
What does splinternet actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.
www.pcmag.com
December 12, 2024 at 1:44 PM
ireneer.bsky.social
"L'avenir d'internet, unité ou fragmentation ?", saine (et rapide) lecture pour aller au-delà de l'idée simpliste d'un "splinternet" calqué sur la géopolitique. Le phénomène s'avère en réalité plus nuancé et surtout plus multiforme que souvent décrit ou annoncé.
Livre l'avenir d'internet, unité ou fragmentation
March 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
wariotifo.bsky.social
just over a fortnight ago they published this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the splinternet: where China led, Iran and others are eagerly following | Editorial
Editorial: Authoritarian states are increasingly shutting off or throttling access to the internet, creating separate spheres in a realm built on connection
www.theguardian.com
June 16, 2026 at 9:29 PM
sixfouronea.net
What some call the "splinternet" others describe as the exercise of technological sovereignty

www.economist.com/business/202...
What the splinternet means for big tech
Unpleasant new trade-offs, for starters
www.economist.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
christopherterry.bsky.social
POTS and PANS: The Growing Splinternet potsandpansbyccg.com/2026/03/27/t...
The Growing Splinternet
The term splinternet refers to Internet service in a country that controls or censors content available to citizens. The best-known example of a splinternet is the Great Firewall of China. While th…
potsandpansbyccg.com
March 27, 2026 at 12:03 PM
danhon.com
one of the inputs used to compute the splinternet index is the proportion of social media posts that are screenshots of posts from other networks
November 25, 2024 at 4:29 AM
beijingpalmer.bsky.social
one of the things that was interesting about Twitter was that it really was multilingual, there were whole worlds out there that most people never saw. wonder if something of that scale will ever be recreated, or whether we're now in a new age of the splinternet.
July 1, 2023 at 11:29 PM
socialmedialab.ca
"Russia slowly trying to splinter its internet from rest of world, analysts say. Telegram is increasingly blocked and mobile internet users face blackouts in effort likened to Iranian shutdowns" #splinternet www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Russia slowly trying to splinter its internet from rest of world, analysts say
Telegram is increasingly blocked and mobile internet users face blackouts in effort likened to Iranian shutdowns
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2026 at 1:53 AM
antikalypse.bsky.social
Ob Klarnamenpflicht oder Splinternet: Jeder zukünftige Antagonismus zum Bestehenden wird sich mit der Frage beschäftigen müssen, wie sich jenseits des Internets organisiert und mobilisiert werden kann. Die schlechte Nachricht: Ohne Plenum (ohne Handys im Wald) wird´s wohl nicht gehen.
February 21, 2026 at 10:53 AM
ccfur537.bsky.social
感觉互联网是一个笑话，fuck splinternet
March 13, 2026 at 7:04 AM
economist.com
Since 2023 Alphabet, Apple, Meta and Microsoft have all had to delay the European launches of various AI tools. That gives smaller rivals a chance to steal market share
What the splinternet means for big tech
Unpleasant new trade-offs, for starters
econ.st
September 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM