Businesses and countries around the world are instituting boycotts on Russia to protest its invasion of Ukraine, but as social media platforms wade into the conflict, they are weighing the longer-term implications of their response, Tripp Mickle and Meghan Bobrowsky write for the Wall Street Journal. Global tech and entertainment platforms have been facing pressure for years to comply with local laws, such as a new classification of Netflix by Russia that could require the streaming service to offer Russian state media channels. The concern is the creation of the “splinternet,” in which separate internets spin off due to differing rules around content in different countries, and the current conflict is bringing worries about this process accelerating. Read the article to learn more about platforms’ responses to the invasion so far and what pressures they’ve experienced leading up to it.