Bits in pieces: a fragmenting internet

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Bits in pieces: a fragmenting internet
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:22:08
• Published: 2019-11-19 12:01

The early vision for a borderless, unregulated internet has not panned out as its pioneers hoped. How to handle the “splinternet”? Doug Jones is Alabama’s first Democratic senator in a quarter of a century; in his moderate ways our correspondent finds broader lessons for the Democratic Party. And air pollution is a threat the world over—most of all to the well-being of children.

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