[governance] Twitter to add to Balkanization of the Web

[McTim]

http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/how-it%E2%80%99s-evolving/future-scenarios

ISOC has done some extensive thinking/modeling around this issue.

rgds,

McTim

On 1/26/12, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
> Twitter just announced that they will soon roll out country-level
> masking of content.
>
> http://goo.gl/icmIu
>
> This seems to be yet another pointer to the increasing balkanization of
> the Web.
>
> So, different users see individualized search results based on personal
> data, they see different maps depending on which country they are in,
> they may or may not view a video depending on which country they are in,
> and now they will see different tweets depending on their country.
>
> In a recent symposium on social media and freedom of expression, Michael
> Anti, the Chinese journalist and blogger, noted how increasingly one
> needs a visa (think circumvention tools) to access the 'international'
> Internet.   However, we're heading to a future where there is no one
> 'international' Internet.  Unless of course, we're already living in
> that future.
>
> Regards,
> Pranesh
>
> --
> Pranesh Prakash
> Programme Manager
> Centre for Internet and Society
> W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283
>
>


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Cheers,

McTim
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route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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