splinternet
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thumb|HTTP 403|HTTP 403 Forbidden server response to a geo-blocked website https://sss.gov ([[Selective Service System) accessed from a Russian internet provider.]] 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 2010, arguing it could soon splinter along geographic and commercial boundaries. Th
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- Instance of
- internet meme
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- has cause
- confirmation bias
- native label
- splinternet
- has effect
- group polarization
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