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The End of “the American Internet” and the Future of Content Controls

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

John Markoff had an interesting article in the New York Times this weekend entitled “Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S..” In the piece, Markoff notes that “The era of the American Internet is ending” since “data is increasingly fl ... Continue reading »

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  • Hilarion

    9 months ago

    Oh, my! Won't that make it harder for entities such as DHS and the NSA to acquire everyone's traffic which moves through the US? That is not such a terrible result since such "eaves-dropping" occurred and still occurs illegally.
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  • awolbushape

    9 months ago

    Hilaron is right on. Shunning the mainstream media is causing those businesses to dive and they are not happy about it. Most of us get our real news of what's going on in the world off the net. Laws are in the works in the u.s. to curb dissent and declare all "thought crimes" as the same thing as actual criminal/terrorist action. Protests at the capital are not covered at all by mainstream media even when hundreds of thousands show up. I wouldn't even know about them if I couldn't access alternate news sites. Those alternate blogs are getting real slow as telecoms are putting them on snail speed; while allowing corp sites lightspeed.

    Getting out of the united police states of america is a good thing imho.
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  • awolbushape

    9 months ago

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  • Thundercross

    9 months ago

    It's quite clear to me that this isn't over paranoia over American spies or control freaks guaranteeing control over what can be said or not.

    It's because the American telecoms haven't developed their infrastructure in several years because they were holding out for more money. We've become the bottleneck of the internet. We've become the point on the net where everything slows down to 8MBPS or so. We're hurting the internet as a whole, and until the telecoms get back to laying down cable, the other countries are going to HAVE to reroute around us. However, if the companies manage to do that content discrimination thing they want to do, it's gonna be absolutely necessary to completely reroute around the US, lest packets get dropped like crazy.
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  • Bubba

    9 months ago

    @Thundercross
    I'm a sysadmin in Europe with control over multiple machines. I have (over the years) been moving those servers from the U.S. to locations in Europe - mostly because I don't want the NSA to get a copy of all our traffic (no matter how benign) and/or be under the jurisdiction of U.S. courts.
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