and suddenly 90 million more people are plunged into the depths of hell for the foreseeable future. Horrific. Authoritarian governments are more cemented now than they ever have been in the past, the technological power gap between governments and people is wider than ever possible.
vovap_vovap on
Well, that will be the end of Ayatollahs for sure.
It was interested development recently in Afghanistan – their boss Hibatullah Akhundzada ordered to turn off internet. And so been done and in 2 days it was back – without any explanation 🙂
SPQR-Tightanus on
Russia when? I am annoyed by their presence in online games.
Soft-Ingenuity2262 on
I somehow read US plans break from global internet and was not surprised at all.
Down_The_Rabbithole on
I truly think the internet will not survive the 21st century. The internet came about in a very unique time in history where a unipolar power reigned supreme that aligned with a cycle of globalism. It was the perfect time to create a global interconnected network that became the internet.
If the soviet union had not collapsed it wouldn’t have been weird to imagine the world now having 2 completely separate “internet” networks that wasn’t interconnected. One for western aligned nations and one for soviet aligned nations.
Now that we are transitioning to a multipolar world again and the pendulum of globalism is swinging towards protectionism again we will most likely see the severance of the internet network into smaller disconnected networks.
We are already starting to see the beginnings of this and I expect there to be a US, EU, Russian and Chinese internet at the very least, with most smaller nations joining one of these networks and some weird outlier countries maintaining their own ones.
Brilliant-Lab546 on
To be honest, this is close to impossible. Cutting off Iranians from the rest of the world when half of them have families abroad(including those very same leaders ) and when virtually all Iranians know what is going on in the outside world, that is the start of a bloody civil war.
This is not 1950s North Korea or an Afghanistan that never had infrastructure to access the outside world. Even in Afghanistan, the last attempt at switching off the internet by that old Taliban leader who had nevr had an inkling of the outside world was thwarted by the Kabul elite, all of whom not only have seen the outside world, but know how Afghanistan itself is changing internally whereby most young people have phones and are on social media. If it did not work in Afghanistan, how the heck will it work in one of the most westernized Muslim nations in the Middle East?
This attempt will go badly. Even China has never really closed off its people entirely from the internet. There are VPNs that work in China and Chinese are on American social media platforms. Russia’s firewall is paper-thin as well.
Pulling a North Korea will fail
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and suddenly 90 million more people are plunged into the depths of hell for the foreseeable future. Horrific. Authoritarian governments are more cemented now than they ever have been in the past, the technological power gap between governments and people is wider than ever possible.
Well, that will be the end of Ayatollahs for sure.
It was interested development recently in Afghanistan – their boss Hibatullah Akhundzada ordered to turn off internet. And so been done and in 2 days it was back – without any explanation 🙂
Russia when? I am annoyed by their presence in online games.
I somehow read US plans break from global internet and was not surprised at all.
I truly think the internet will not survive the 21st century. The internet came about in a very unique time in history where a unipolar power reigned supreme that aligned with a cycle of globalism. It was the perfect time to create a global interconnected network that became the internet.
If the soviet union had not collapsed it wouldn’t have been weird to imagine the world now having 2 completely separate “internet” networks that wasn’t interconnected. One for western aligned nations and one for soviet aligned nations.
Now that we are transitioning to a multipolar world again and the pendulum of globalism is swinging towards protectionism again we will most likely see the severance of the internet network into smaller disconnected networks.
We are already starting to see the beginnings of this and I expect there to be a US, EU, Russian and Chinese internet at the very least, with most smaller nations joining one of these networks and some weird outlier countries maintaining their own ones.
To be honest, this is close to impossible. Cutting off Iranians from the rest of the world when half of them have families abroad(including those very same leaders ) and when virtually all Iranians know what is going on in the outside world, that is the start of a bloody civil war.
This is not 1950s North Korea or an Afghanistan that never had infrastructure to access the outside world. Even in Afghanistan, the last attempt at switching off the internet by that old Taliban leader who had nevr had an inkling of the outside world was thwarted by the Kabul elite, all of whom not only have seen the outside world, but know how Afghanistan itself is changing internally whereby most young people have phones and are on social media. If it did not work in Afghanistan, how the heck will it work in one of the most westernized Muslim nations in the Middle East?
This attempt will go badly. Even China has never really closed off its people entirely from the internet. There are VPNs that work in China and Chinese are on American social media platforms. Russia’s firewall is paper-thin as well.
Pulling a North Korea will fail