The “Splinternet” is the idea that the open, globally-connected Internet we all use splinters into a collection of fragmented networks controlled by governments or corporations. Would you want to live in a world with Splinternet? Where the addresses you normally use on the open Internet can take you to completely different places—or sites can be blocked entirely. It’s where you can’t trust the names and addresses to take you to where they’re supposed to. It’s where borders are added to a borderless system. It’s where the free flow of information becomes restricted and suppressed.