A splinternet will take us in the wrong direction

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
5 min readAug 12, 2020

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One only has to read President Trump’s recent executive orders on TikTok and WeChat to see that the internet is steadily being broken up.

Intentionally vague and lacking any hard evidence, they reveal that the current US administration doesn’t believe in a global internet and that, after years of criticizing China’s Great Firewall, Washington is now copying Beijing’s strategy…

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)