Info balkanization causes authoritarianism

What this balkanized information ecosystem portends in practice is a citizenry that could potentially have access to completely different sets of information about current affairs and perhaps a very splintered worldview of reality. Countries with authoritarian governments are already creating environments where censorship is easier achieved and occurs with far greater frequency. Already a complex network of national laws and regulations, and centrally administered firewalls is facilitating the removal, by some governments, of access to disruptive material, silencing of dissidents, and crushing of free expression online. This is likely only to intensify as the internet balkanizes even more.