splinternet

English

Etymology

Blend of splinter +‎ internet

Noun

splinternet (countable and uncountable, plural splinternets)

1. A fragmented internet, or one of its separate parts.
   • 2012, Rachel Pasqua, Noah Elkin, Mobile Marketing: An Hour a Day:

     Wise words from one of advertising's elder statesmen, who has seen the industry evolve from TV, radio, and print to today's splinternet.

   • 2012, Wayne D. Bowman, Ana Lucía Frega, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, page 468:

     Increasingly, writers refer to internets or splinternets as ways to describe an increasingly fragmented web in which power brokers create limited access to the Web and the curricular informality of connectivity is challenged by formality.

   • 2021 February 17, Shira Ovide, “The Internet Is Splintering”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The splinternet fear is often presented as a binary choice between one global Facebook or Google, or 200 versions. But there are ideas floating around to set a global baseline of online expression, and a process for adjudicating disputes.

See also

• cyberbalkanization