Volume 5, Issue 3 2 The myth of the decentralised internet Ashwin J. Mathew, University of California, Berkeley PUBLISHED ON: 30 Sep 2016 DOI: 10.14763/2016.3.425 Is the internet decentralised? I argue that it is not. To understand power in the internet, it must be viewed as a distributed system. KEYWORDS: Decentralisation, Governance, Protocols, Routing