[perihelions]

War and everything else aside, this is a remarkable sentence (as a rationale for Great Firewalling a ccTLD):

- "Even seemingly innocuous links could be hosted by someone that is less benign."

I'm afraid the future of the internet really will be a small oligarchy of walled gardens, each of which only permit mention and reference to other walled gardens, in the interest of controllability ("integrity", "security", "safety"). The independent, non-corporate internet will slowly die out in the kernel of the hyperlink matrix.