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Splinternet

The splinternet (also referred to as cyber-balkanization or internet balkanization) is a characterization of the Internet as splintering and dividing due to various factors, such as technology, commerce, politics, nationalism, religion, and divergent national interests. "Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it", wrote the Economist weekly in…

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Technology

Commercial lock-in

Politics and nationalism

Security and espionage

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Splinternet

Nodes91
Edges90
Triples37
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021978
Components1

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Splinternet

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related to Commercial lock-in · 24
Splinternet → Android, Bing, BlackBerry, But, Flash, Forrester Research, Google, Google Android, He, However, Internet, Josh Bernoff, Microsoft, My, Nokia, Pandora, PCs, The Atlantic, They, Unix-like
related to Technology · 9
Splinternet → Describing, Doc Searls, Google, He, However, Internet, Journalist, Users, Web

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internet new china web also term content technology interests google national create describe security devices world censorship splintering information related

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Alibabainstance ofChina avoided reliance on foreign systems and replaced cloud providers with domestic ones0.80text
Tencentinstance ofChina avoided reliance on foreign systems and replaced cloud providers with domestic ones0.80text
Huaweiinstance ofChina avoided reliance on foreign systems and replaced cloud providers with domestic ones0.80text
the OpenNet Initiative were created because they recognized thatinstance ofThe age of the Splinternet beckons.Organizations0.80text
Splinternetrelated to Commercial lock-inThe Atlantic0.60section
Splinternetrelated to Commercial lock-inWriter Derek Thomson0.60section
Splinternetrelated to Commercial lock-inMy0.60section
Splinternetrelated to Commercial lock-inBlackBerry0.60section
Splinternetrelated to Commercial lock-inBing0.60section
Splinternetrelated to Commercial lock-inVerizon0.60section
Splinternetrelated to Commercial lock-inMicrosoft0.60section
Splinternetrelated to Commercial lock-inBut0.60section

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