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US No Longer the World's Internet Hub

Posted by Soulskill on from the couldn't-last-forever dept.

museumpeace brings us a New York Times story about how internet traffic is increasingly flowing around the US as web-based industries catch up in other parts of the world. Other issues, such as the Patriot Act, have made foreign companies wary about having their data on US servers. From the NYTimes: "Internet industry executives and government officials have acknowledged that Internet traffic passing through the switching equipment of companies based in the United States has proved a distinct advantage for American intelligence agencies. In December 2005, The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency had established a program with the cooperation of American telecommunications firms that included the interception of foreign Internet communications. Some Internet technologists and privacy advocates say those actions and other government policies may be hastening the shift in Canadian and European traffic away from the United States."

6 of 433 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Article Error by nametaken · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh quit your pissing. He said something retarded, and no amount of spin control will ever kill the humor in it.

  2. Re:No surprising by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Progressives don't want stuff like fairness and informed decisions. All they want is attention. Other people telling them how good they are.

    They are on the way out.

  3. Re:Article Error by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Gore invented the Internet" jokes are in the same category as "Doom 3 is dark lol" jokes. Stupid at the time, and stupid now, and haven't aged well either. So no, I will not "quit my pissing", I will keep on RAGEing.

  4. Re:Article Error by nametaken · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Sorry, you don't get to be the authority on the topic. People think it's funny, the moderators think it's funny, and it's only made more humorous by people who are incensed by it because of silly political affiliations.

  5. Re:No surprising by Lord+Haw+Haw+Haw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    America wants globalization in a world that plays with different rules to those American are use too.

    Really? Last I heard was America was screaming bloody murder and clamping down on outsourcing of jobs? Where is globalisation now? America is a hypocrite. And don't let anything make you think otherwise.

  6. Re:No surprising by Lord+Haw+Haw+Haw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    flamebait? oh! come on...