The Splinternet is Already Here, Owing to the Militarisation of Technology (Slop, Social Control Media, Back Doors, and More)
MElon, who openly boasts about regime change (stealing natural resources of South Americans even 5+ years before the Venezuela 'thing'), is weaponising satellites and the Net against the regime in Iran. The idea is to help people evade censorship that culminates in shutdowns.
So you know what's gonna happen next...
"Iran plans to make its break from the Internet permanent," an associate told me today, i.e. "another splinternet" (there will be multiple articles on that in tomorrow's batch, i.e. in Daily Links).
I said that the Net was always military project, but only "of sorts" the associate insisted, as "academia ruled for about a decade though" (I'd argue that a lot of academia is in the pockets of the military through grant and that it's hardly a new problem for academic freedom/independence).
The Net (not just the Web, the whole Net!) is breaking apart as the world becomes harsher. The dictator of USA, for example, attacks the national broadcaster of the UK, which was meant to have a "special relationship" with the US. There are also other forms of Net attacks by the US on the UK [1, 2], not counting the ones against my wife and I, also not counting attacks on American allies of ours. I'm tempted to say "rogue state" not only in relation to Iran. █