{"id":11439,"date":"2018-12-07T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=11439"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:39","slug":"the-web-really-isnt-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/07\/the-web-really-isnt-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"The web really isn\u2019t worldwide \u2013 every country has different access"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11444\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11444\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11444\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60.png\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60.png 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60-200x140.png 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60-285x200.png 285w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60-60x42.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When a website blocks access, it sometimes delivers a notice saying so. (Screenshot from airbnb.com, CC BY-ND)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What the internet looks like to users in the U.S. can be quite different from the online experience of people in other countries. Some of those variations are due to government censorship, but private companies \u2013 many based in the U.S. \u2013 are also building obstacles to users from around the world who want to freely explore the internet.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-web-really-isnt-worldwide-every-country-has-different-access-106739\">recent article by U-M&#8217;s <strong>Allison McDonald<\/strong><\/a>, a Ph.D. student in computer science and part of a team of internet freedom researchers, examines how geoblocking\u00a0is increasing and affecting users from almost every country in the world. &#8220;Geoblocking cuts people off from global markets and international communications just as effectively as government censorship,&#8221; writes McDonald. &#8220;And it creates a more splintered internet, where each country has its own bubble of content and services, rather than sharing a global commons of information and interconnection.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the internet looks like to users in the U.S. can be quite different from the online experience of people in other countries. Some of those variations are due to government censorship, but private companies \u2013 many based in the U.S. \u2013 are also building obstacles to users from around the world who want to freely explore the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/07\/the-web-really-isnt-worldwide\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[232,199,195,111],"class_list":["post-11439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-censorship","tag-law","tag-open-access","tag-web"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60.png",600,421,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60-200x140.png",200,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60-285x200.png",285,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60.png",600,421,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60.png",600,421,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60.png",600,421,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60.png",600,421,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60-600x300.png",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60.png",600,421,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/file-20181203-194950-9jqd60.png",356,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"What the internet looks like to users in the U.S. can be quite different from the online experience of people in other countries. 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