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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."

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  1. Oh hey by kjzk · · Score: 0, Troll

    Another example of how the failed GOP policies are moving progress backwards in this country.

  2. you'd think by pkbarbiedoll · · Score: 0, Troll

    That the GOP and Bush admin (and many blue dog dems) are dead set on destroying America from the inside out.

  3. Re:Not surprising by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 0, Troll

    I live in Vancouver, and when I went to talk to an agent at a multinational staffing company about some opportunities they had, they made me sign a form acknowledging that my information would be stored in their systems in California, and that it was therefore subject to the PATRIOT act, meaning that Homeland Security could show up, demand copies of my data, and make it illegal for them to tell me.

    If you signed it, you're a traitor to your country. Those people are evil, and if you're with them, you're against the rest of us.

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  4. Re:Better idea by Stanislav_J · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about we have an international network that is completely free from politics and that politicians can't touch?

    Yup. And I would like a night of hot animalistic sex with Jessica Biel. Both have about an equal chance of happening.

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    "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." -- Eric Hoffer