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Government politics/regimes aside, this is terrible, as information and knowledge needs to be shared and accessible. Today, we enjoy access to all of humanity’s knowledge in our pocket. If a segregated internet becomes reality, information and knowledge will become divided and only available to those who has access to it; there’s no guarantee who will be the ones losing access, and neither of which will be a desirable outcome.