I think most people don't realize that the internet is effectively partitioned already, on multiple levels, some intentional, some unintentional. Language being the biggest one, anglosaxon internet is just one of many, probably the one we're the most familiar with, but there are 4-5 others out there, that are as big and bigger than the one we're all used to.

Secondly, depending on what continent and country you use the internet from, you get a vastly different experience. If you're unlucky enough to live in Brazil, Peru, Algeria, Cambodia or hundreds of other countries, you'll be served challenge after challenge, regardless of how many times you continue to pass them. Cloudflare will in some cases just straight up reject traffic from you, and many times just the fact that websites set too short timesouts to HTTP requests, means you effectively can't browse their websites, even if you'd be ready to wait 2 seconds for each request to be done.

So you end up segregating internet users per country, because of gatekeepers like Cloudflare and others, who've somehow made people feel much more comfortable with just blocking all traffic from a whole country because of some attack they sustained in the past originating from that country.

Not sure what the solution is, but I've definitely felt the effects of these things too, making the internet I'm used to borderline impossible to use because of the country I was in. I'm not sure most people realize how fragmented it all already is, and been for decades already, not least because of language.