Can There Be a Non-US Internet?

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @04:26PM from the new-management dept.

Daniel_Stuckey writes "After discovering that the US government has been invading the privacy of not just Americans, but also Brazilians, Brazil is showing its teeth. The country responded to the spying revelations by declaring it'll just have to create its own internet. In reality, although Brazil President Dilma Rousseff is none too happy with the NSA's sketchy surveillance practices, Brazil and other up-and-coming economies have been pushing to shift the power dynamics of the World Wide Web away from a US-centric model for years."

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Re:Technically yes; practically unlikely by khasim · 2013-09-25 16:45 · Score: 5, Interesting

Initially, yes.
But after a couple of years I don't think there would be that much of a difference.
As long as all the on-line commercial entities in that country were okay with never having any US business. Otherwise the NSA (and others) can demand access to their data in exchange for access to our markets.
And that isn't even considering the old spy standby of either getting one of your spies hired by them or offering one of their employees money to get you access.
The problems are not technological. They are human nature.