Splinternet
What is it?
A term used to describe the global internet splintering and dividing into regions, so people in one country wouldn’t be able to access sites or services hosted in another.
Like China’s Great Firewall?
It goes much further than that. China’s Great Firewall restricts what its citizens can access (banning, for example, internet, severing connections with the outside world. Analysts have long feared that it could happen, typically citing technological, political or religious reasons. Now they think the Russian invasion of Ukraine could speed it up.
