It should be clear now, if not long ago, that the US Government is the silent occupier of the stateless generation. This is true no matter the protest the American technological industry may attempt present in response to this fact. In light of this "Balkanisation" should be seen as a marketing term thought up by US actors to prevent the rest of the world from noticing that their data, sitting in or traversing the US, has less rights than that of a Syrian refugee.
I would argue that we are at a fork in the road where in the one direction is the balkanization of the Internet in the interests of states' sovereignties and in the other direction the Internet becomes government, per se, and a laissez faire one at that. Until the day it is not. [ Out of curiousity, are you a French mathematician? ] --dan