In a sense, the World Wide Web as we know it is over… in its place is something altogether different: a Balkanized ‘splinternet’…where your experience online is determined by local regulation. Mark Scott – Chief Technology Correspondent, Politico, 12/17 & 2/18 We need a new generation of laws to govern a new generation of tech. Brad Smith – President & Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft, 2/18 There’s a paradigm shift going on… Governments are moving from a position of non-interference to a realization that if we want to keep a cross-border Internet going, then we [need] a new system of governance. Paul Fehlinger – Co-Founder, Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network, 2/18 Note: ‘Splinternet’ originated by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. writing for the Cato Institute in 2001. Internet Trends 188 2019