Can There Be a Non-US Internet? 406
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."
Oblig. (Score:5, Funny)
In Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri terms (Score:3, Funny)
"You cannot build The Planetary Datalinks here. The US have already completed this project."
And now they get to spy on everyone else for the rest of the game.