27-03-2019 15:00 via theverge.com

Europe is splitting the internet into three

It’s strange to think about now, but until the 1920s, you didn’t generally need a passport to travel. A smart CEO I know recently mentioned this to me in the context of what’s happening to the internet. The idea of making citizens carry documents to promote border security, he said, dates only to the aftermath of World War I.
The online world is much younger than the offline one, and so it shouldn’t surprise us that it is generally a much freer place to travel. There are
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