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:US = questionable value proposition netwise by Jane+Q.+Public · 2013-09-25 22:30 · Score: -1, Troll

"Furthermore, with the continued erosion of the US economy into a non-producing one,"
Really? The latest widely-published statistics I read said that the average American is still 30% more productive per work hour than the rest of the Western world.

Erosion, compared to what?