Her former CEO Google and Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt estimates that China's multi-trillion dollar infrastructure could cause the Internet to break up.
Eric Schmidt briefly mentioned that it is very likely that we will see one Internet split in two. One will be dominated by China and the other will be led by the US, 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 visited recently China, kept his distance from the country's tech scene, but warned that there was a "real risk" that the Chinese government would gain full control of parts of the internet through deals such as China's giant Belt and Road infrastructure project.
"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 about a controlled internet from China come amid internal discussions taking place at Google about a censored version of machineς searchs 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 withdrew from China in 2010 over government-imposed censorship regulations. In 2018, with the announcement of the Dragonfly project, thousands of Google employees signed a letter opposing restitution Google in the Chinese market.
It was one of the last moral dilemmas of company employees, as the previous one was for Google's participation in an AI project for the US Department of Defense.
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