Former Google CEO and Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt estimates that its multi-trillion dollar infrastructure China they could cause the Internet to break up.
Eric Schmidt briefly stated that it is very likely that we will see an internet split in two. One will be dominated by China and the other will be led by the USA, he told CNBC.
"The most likely scenario now is not a distortion, but a branching out into a Chinese and a non-Chinese internet driven by America." Reported.
Schmidt, who recently visited China, has distanced himself from the country's technology scene, but warned that there was a "real risk" that the Chinese government would gain full control of parts of the internet through agreements such as its giant Belt and Road infrastructure project. Of China.
"We will see fantastic leadership in products and services from China. But there is a real danger that along with these products and services there will be a different leadership regime from the government, with censorship, controls and much more. ”
"Look at the way BRI works - the Belt and Road initiative, which involves 60 countries. "It is very likely that these countries will start taking over the infrastructure owned by China but with some loss of freedom."
Schmidt's comments on a Chinese-controlled internet come amid internal discussions at Google about a censored version of the search engine that the company is preparing for China under the code name Dragonfly.
These comments can not be accidental, as America recently banned civil servants from having Appliances from Chinese technology companies Huawei and ZTE.
Google has withdrawn from China 2010 on censorship regulations imposed by the government. 2018, with the Dragonfly project announcement, thousands of Google workers have signed a letter that opposes Google's return to the Chinese market.
It was one of the last ethical dilemmas of the company's employees, as the previous one was for Google's participation in an AI project for the US Department Defense.
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