Virtual borders have also been subtly dividing the world
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Murals and graffitis to protest against the regime in Cairo during the Revolution of 2011, which was organized on the internet.
To the globalists' dismay, recent years have seen the strengthening of national borders. State sovereignty rages on with each vehicle returned and each visa revoked.
But in case you thought the divisions were just physical, virtual borders have also been subtly dividing the world. You land in Country A with every hope for a romantic getaway, only to find that the dating app you had just used at the airport now no longer works on your phone. That's fine. But minutes before your big business meeting in Country C, you fall into a total panic when the cloud drive on which you'd stored all your files in Country B somehow won't open on your laptop. This is bad.
The state's power to disrupt and exclude goes far beyond the flow of people, goods and money. In erecting virtual borders, states are asserting an even more formidable type of power through controlling the flow of information on the internet. Unlike physical borders, virtual borders are at once everywhere and nowhere, and one may never even know for certain whether they exist.
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