How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post

Sat Nov 2 19:42:35 UTC 2013

On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:06 PM, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
> > In article <ee045d19-797d-4346-8793-b854e528f813 at 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.
>
>
I wince for the copy-editor that missed the typo
in this headline:

http://www.bricscable.com/blog/brics-scale-black-plan-to-challenge-west/

Matt