Sovereignty in cyberspace: Balkanization or democratization

Cattaruzza, Amaël; Danet, Didier; Taillat, Stéphane; Laudrain, Arthur Pb

doi:10.1109/cyconus.2016.7836628

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“…Early concerns were mainly commercial and technical, focusing, for example, on internet service providers refusing to "peer" with each other (Sagawa 1997;Frieden 1998). Later concerns took on a markedly more geopolitical tinge, stressing how the once "global" web was being fragmented by anti-American enemies such as China and Russia (Earle, Madek 2002;Wu 2004;Werbach 2008;Kuner et al 2015;Cattaruzza et al 2016). Despite the hand-wringing of these critics, the internet was always already balkanized.…”

Section: Balkanization Crisis?mentioning

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Porous Territories the Internet beyond Borderless versus Balkanized

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2020

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If the internet was once viewed as a borderless realm, critics now warn it is in danger of being “balkanized”, splintering into nationalized fragments. Certainly nation-states increasingly see the Internet as “their” internet, a national space to be regulated and actively shaped. The first half of this article charts the technologies that appear to place this vision within reach: data localization, internet shutdowns, and internet filtering. These moves promise to exert sovereign control, to make the internet an extension of national territory. Yet by drawing on two recent events in China, this article argues that these territories are messy and their borders are permeable. Pro-government activists jump across the firewall in order to attack individuals and organizations who threaten the stability and security of their motherland. Simultaneously, individuals scale the firewall in order to question the party line and express solidarity with democratic movements, undermining the political and technical boundaries established by their nation. Internet architectures create a condition where territorialization is constantly being both amplified and undermined by “extra- territorial” activities. These practices demonstrate the everyday porosity of internet territories, providing a messier portrait that goes beyond the dichotomy of borderless vs balkanized.

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Section: Balkanization Crisis?mentioning

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Porous Territories the Internet beyond Borderless versus Balkanized

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2020

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“…Kämen die Unternehmen diesen Forderungen nicht nach, dürften sie ihre Dienste nicht auf russischem Territorium anbieten, und der Zugriff auf deren Onlinepräsenzen würde auf russischem Territorium geblockt (vgl. O'Driscoll 2020).Einige Publikationen betonen, dass analoge gesetzliche Regulierungen zur Datenlokalisierung oder zur Transparentmachung und Nachvollziehbarkeit von Datenströmen auch in anderen Ländern erlassen wurden, beispielsweise in China (vgl Cattaruzza et al 2016),. ebenso wie der Einbau von Backdoors in vergleichbarer Weise auch von der NSA gefordert wurde (vgl.…”

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