Digital Cloud Balkanisation

[dewline]

Apparently, this is a thing to worry about. Especially with about a third of the planet trying to lurch back towards authoritarianism, fascism, "illiberal democracy", autocracy, etc. at whatever speed they can muster over the objections of the people they assert the right to master.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/17/1014967/balkanization-cloud-computing-bad-everyone/

To some extent, as users of Dreamwidth, we have to subscribe to this POV ourselves or lose some degree of contact with one another. And we definitely consider that international communication and community to be a public good.

How do we deal with this?

Comments

[thewayne]

People in the UK are falling out of EU data protection laws and back in to California's since they're no longer part of the EU in 11 days, except for half of Ireland.

It's a definite problem.