High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Splinternet is a term used to describe the splintering and dividing of the Internet due to various factors, such as technology, commerce, politics, nationalism, and religion. Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it, writes the Economist weekly, and it may soon splinter along geographic and commercial boundaries. Countries such as China have erected what is termed a Great Firewall, for political reasons, while other nations, such as Australia, plan to create a similar firewall to block child pornography or weapon-making instructions. Dannoe izdanie predstavlyaet soboj kompilyatsiyu svedenij, nahodyaschihsya v svobodnom dostupe v srede Internet v tselom, i v informatsionnom setevom resurse Vikipediya v chastnosti. Sobrannaya po chastotnym zaprosam ukazannoj tematiki, dannaya kompilyatsiya postroena po printsipu podbora blizkih informatsionnyh ssylok, ne imeet samostoyatelnogo syuzheta, ne soderzhit nikakih analiticheskih materialov, vyvodov, otsenok moralnogo, eticheskogo, politicheskogo, religioznogo i mirovozzrencheskogo haraktera v otnoshenii glavnoj tematiki, predstavlyaya soboj isklyuchitelno faktologicheskij material. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. ukryj opis