Ask Slashdot: Best Country To Avoid Government Surveillance?

simpz writes: Which country is best to choose for hosting Internet services and locating VMs to avoid government surveillance (both NSA and local)? It should be a country with good connectivity to the US and Europe, but have strong legal protections from mass surveillance. People talk about Switzerland, Norway and Iceland (even Spain). Anyone worked through the pros and cons of each of these? I'm not concerned about legitimate (with court order) surveillance, just the un-targeted mass surveillance most governments seem to do. I don't believe this bad behavior should be rewarded or made easy.

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[Zontar The Mindless]

Mod here. Alas, there's no -1, Full of Intellectual Dishonesty.

Exercising *some* discretion and wanting to keep things *somewhat* on-topic is not being "Ned Flanders".

And I was very likely reading Cracked before you were born. You may now get off my lawn and go find some traffic to play in.