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Eric Schmidt: Anxiety Over US Spying Will "Break the Internet"

Posted by samzenpus on from the this-is-why-we-can't-have-nice-things dept.

jfruh writes Oregon Senator Ron Wyden gathered a group of tech luminaries to discuss the implications of U.S. surveillance programs, and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt didn't mince words. He said that worries over U.S. surveillance would result in servers with different sets of data for users from different countries multiplying across the world. "The simplest outcome is that we're going to end up breaking the Internet."

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  1. Re: Very easy to solve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This. You guys are complaining about how bad your internet infrastructure is. Use the 10 billion per year that you are paying to be spied on to upgrade the nations backbone instead. I think that would improve many things.

    We tried that, and the major ISPs just pocketed the money.