Warning over 'broken up' internet

The internet could one day be broken up into separate networks around the world, a leading light in the development of the net has warned.

The conference was organised by Nominet, the UK body in charge of domain names ending .uk, ahead of the first-ever Internet Governance Forum, a global gathering of stakeholders in Athens later this month.

"If I look at the internet in five years from now there are going to be very, very, very more internet users in Asia than Europe or America."

"There will be more Chinese web pages than English pages."

I have a feeling that this will be unavoidable. You'll have seperate internet setup, dependant on your continent.

Also, China has already threatened to set up their own 'internet' as they are worried about allowing their citizens global access to information. Worrying!

Their main excuse was that the internet is governed by a board of US led specialists, and as such is 'tainted' by Western philosophy, society and ideals.