The Web's New Walls  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 396 no. 8698 (Sep. 2010), page 11.
Topik: International; Internet Access; Information Dissemination; Public Access; Firewalls; Network Security; Internet Service Providers; Broadband; Public Policy

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As divergent forces tug at the Internet, it is in danger of losing its universality and splintering into separate digital domains. Now the Internet is so large and so widely used that countries, companies and network operators want to wall bits of it off, or make parts of it work in a different way, to promote their own political or commercial interests. Three sets of walls are being built. The first is national. For instance, China's "great firewall" already imposes tight controls on Internet links with the rest of the world, monitoring traffic and making many sites or services unavailable. Second, companies are exerting greater control by building "walled gardens" - an approach that appeared to have died out a decade ago. Facebook has its own closed, internal e-mail system, for example. Third, there are concerns that network operators looking for new sources of revenue will strike deals with content providers that will favour those websites prepared to pay up. The incentives that used to favour greater interconnection now point the other way. Suggesting that "The Web is Dead", as Wired magazine did recently, is going a bit far. But the net is losing some of its openness and universality.

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