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Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 15:13:51 -0400
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:06 PM, John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:
In article <ee045d19-797d-4346-8793-b854e528f813 () email android com> you write:The balkanizing of the Net? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/11/01/how-anti-nsa-backlash-could-fracture-the-internet-along-national-borders/I expect we'll hear lots of pontification, quietly fading away when someone explains to the pontificators just how expensive it would be to do what they want, and ask where the money is coming from. It would be swell if Brazil routed its Internet traffic somewhere other than Miami, for purely technical reasons of resilience and shorter routes. But that would require a cable to other places (Africa and Europe.) They can do that any time, so long as they pay for it.
I can't be the only one to have been following this 12.8TB of neat-o-ness: http://www.bricscable.com/ -Jim P.
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- How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post Jay Ashworth (Nov 02)
- Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post John Levine (Nov 02)
- Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post Jim Popovitch (Nov 02)
- Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post Matthew Petach (Nov 02)
- Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post Jim Popovitch (Nov 02)
- Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post Jon Sands (Nov 05)
- Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post Jim Popovitch (Nov 02)
- Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post Christopher Morrow (Nov 02)
- Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post Jim Popovitch (Nov 03)
- Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post John Levine (Nov 02)
- Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post Jorge Amodio (Nov 04)
- Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post Masataka Ohta (Nov 04)
- Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post Jorge Amodio (Nov 04)
- RE: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post Eric Tykwinski (Nov 04)