The World’s Digital Jugular: Why The Hormuz Strait Holds The Global Internet Hostage

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Tampa Free Press

The Strait of Hormuz has long been known as the world’s most important oil transit point, but as of May 2026, it has emerged as a perhaps even more critical bottleneck for the global internet. Approximately 97 of all data flowing between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East now moves through a cluster of fiber-optic [] The World’s Digital Jugular: Why The Hormuz Strait Holds The Global Internet Hostage