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source: bookwyrm
date: 2025-01-09 23:25:54.00 +00
title: "Splinternet: How Geopolitics and Commerce Are Fragmenting the World Wide Web by Scott Malcomson"
post_uri: https://bookwyrm.social/user/gravely/comment/6214638
post_id: 6214638
bookwyrm_updated: 2025-01-09T23:25:54.234835+00:00
tags:
  - bookwyrm
book_title: "Splinternet: How Geopolitics and Commerce Are Fragmenting the World Wide Web"
book_author: "Scott Malcomson"
book_url: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1629324
reading_status: read
---
![Cover of Splinternet: How Geopolitics and Commerce Are Fragmenting the World Wide Web by Scott Malcomson, published 2016](./cover-6214638.jpeg)

What a strange little book. Kinda a rehash and very abridged version of Levy's Hackers that begins in WW1 and ends post-snowden. Especially strange to finish on hackers fighting back against the government and corporate attempts to run "the internet" as I was descending to land at DCA to attend the last ShmooCon in DC. 

I'm still team Evgeny Morozov re: "what's the Internet?"