MIT Technology Review
The secret police: Inside the app Minnesota police used to collect data on journalists at protests (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 03/23/2022 - 11:47Activists are targeting Russians with open-source “protestware” (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Mon, 03/21/2022 - 11:45Russia is risking the creation of a “splinternet”—and it could be irreversible
Russia’s disconnection from the online services of the West has been as abrupt and complete as its disconnection from real-world global trade routes. The moves have raised fears of a “splinternet” (or Balkanized internet), in which instead of the single global internet we have today, we have a number of national or regional networks that don’t speak to one another and perhaps even operate using incompatible technologies. That would spell the end of the internet as a single global communications technology—and perhaps not only temporarily.