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Fight for control threatens to destabilize and fragment the internet

  • Written by Nick Merrill, Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
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You try to use your credit card, but it doesn’t work. In fact, no one’s credit card works. You try to go to some news sites to find out why, but you can’t access any of those, either. Neither can anyone else....

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