The Brazilian President is clearly not happy! After cancelling her US visit post Snowden's revelations about the NSA's hacking of government communications in Brazil, and calling them crooks at her General Assembly speech last week, she has also gone a step further.
Brazil plans todivorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's widespread online spying
This is taking the form of pushing for Brazilians' data to be stored in servers locally and the building of a new communication system independent from US and Britain - namely, the BRICS cable from Vladivostock, Russia to Shantou, China to Chennai, India to Cape Town, South Africa to Fortaleza, Brazil, which it turns out, is in its final phase of implementation.
Most of Brazil's global Internet traffic passes through the United States, so Rousseff's government plans to lay underwater fiber optic cable directly to Europe and also link to all South American nations to create what it hopes will be a network free of U.S. eavesdropping...... And its postal service plans by next year to create an encrypted email service that could serve as an alternative to Gmail and Yahoo!, which according to Snowden-leaked documents are among U.S. tech giants that have collaborated closely with the NSA.
Would this stop the spying? Ofcourse not! But if other BRIC countries follow suit, this could result in a massive balkanization of digital networks and companies like google either losing access to 25% of the world's GDP or at the least, paying the price in the form of higher costs to maintain a local infrastructure.
What do you think? Could this be the beginning of the end of globalization? Hard to imagine, but still a question that needs to be asked!
You know this will be connected to USA as well, right?
They have to block so many websites for this to work and have their own replacements. Good luck socialists.
LOL! This is the most moronic idea I've ever heard. Drop billions of dollars on infrastructure that will in no way prevent the U.S. from spying on them. They call this cutting your nose off to spite your face.
One thing for sure, it will make the foreign porn websites load faster by decreasing the load on the existing infrastructure.
Politicians making IT decisions. That's a recipe for retarded outcomes.
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