It seems that I may have been prescient in my other thread, but that didn't really go anywhere. I've just learnt that Africa has implemented an alternative Internet that avoids using Google and American servers and transport.
I am not surprised to hear about this, and few years ago I was reading that Russia is preparing to do something similar, and they are slowly banning many apps and services including VPN.
China already have their own Great Firewall so it would not shock me to see them having something similar, or maybe join with Russia and other countries.
I honestly don't know exactly how this would affect Bitcoin network, but I think we could start having different tiers of bitcoin in future, maybe we already have it with all those ''tainted'' coins crap.