The internet is breaking up – and Europe is the only bloc that knows what to do about it (opens in new tab)

The global internet is fragmenting. Not through accident or technical failure, but through deliberate sovereign infrastructure choices made by states that have concluded the open internet serves other people's interests better than their own. Four geopolitical shocks – mass surveillance revelations (), the weaponisation of digital sanctions, China’s demonstration of a viable self-contained digital ecosystem (), and pandemic-era platform dependence – have accelerated a divergence that was alwa...