This point can even be stated stronger. Since the Internet exploded, starting in 1993, in a world wide web, all users outside USA paid, via their ISP's, for their connections and IP-traffic. So a huge amount of money from all over the world started flowing into the USA and still does. The bigger information providing sites had to move to the USA, because that was cheaper (the traffic into and from US is paid abroad). Le Louvre was an early example of this. So after the money also the information was sucked into the USA, seemingly a legitimation for the previous money-flow. In former centuries this was called "Imperialism" and now "New Economy". It is time that ISP's outside USA start connecting and routing around the USA. And maybe it could be discussed in GATT and G8.
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This point can even be stated stronger. Since the Internet exploded, starting in 1993, in a world wide web, all users outside USA paid, via their ISP's, for their connections and IP-traffic. So a huge amount of money from all over the world started flowing into the USA and still does. The bigger information providing sites had to move to the USA, because that was cheaper (the traffic into and from US is paid abroad). Le Louvre was an early example of this. So after the money also the information was sucked into the USA, seemingly a legitimation for the previous money-flow. In former centuries this was called "Imperialism" and now "New Economy". It is time that ISP's outside USA start connecting and routing around the USA. And maybe it could be discussed in GATT and G8.