It ia yet to be seen whether the geographic disparity in the usage of and access to tge internet will lead to international tensions in it's future development, as well as tge economic influence that it has. A number of specialists have identified two main dangers:
First, there is a serious danger that people will see the existing level of western influence in the internet as threatening to local culture as well as social and economic development in the same way as TV, movies and companies are.
There are other dangers: certain countries are very concerned to keep control of the internet; they fear not just threats to cultural values, but they also fear that internet might become engine of political change, threatening the power structure of the political elite such countries may wish to hust up information that is politically inconvenient; they may wish also to use the internet to identify political opponent.
