Brazil was not bluffing last year, when it said that it wanted to disconnect from the United States-controlled internet due to the NSA's obscenely invasive surveillance tactics. The country is about to stretch a cable from the northern city of Fortaleza all the way to Portugal, and they've vowed not to use a single U.S. vendor to do it.
At first glance, Brazil's plan to disconnect from the U.S. internet just seemed silly. The country was not happy when news emerged that the NSA's tentacles stretched all the way down to Brazil. And the country was especially not happy when news emerged that the NSA had been spying on the Brazilian government's email for years. But really, what are you gonna do?
Brazil made a bunch of bold promises, ranging in severity from forcing companies like Facebook and Google to move their servers inside Brazilian borders, to building a new all-Brazilian email system—which they've already done. But the first actionable opportunity the country was presented with is this transatlantic cable, which had been in the works since 2012 but is only just now seeing construction begin. And with news that the cable plan will not include American vendors, it looks like Brazil is serious; it's investing $185 million on the cable project alone. And not a penny of that sum will go to an American company.
http://gizmodo.com/brazils-keeping-its-promise-to-disconnect-from-the-u-s-1652771021
[Additional Coverage]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-30/brazil-to-portugal-cable-shapes-up-as-anti-nsa-case-study.html
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 31 2014, @02:59AM
A lot of problems go away if people stop having sex too, but good luck getting that to happen either.
(Score: 1) by yarp on Friday October 31 2014, @09:27AM
If people stopped having sex there would be less to spy on!
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Friday October 31 2014, @10:25AM
And less spies. Wait...
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday October 31 2014, @04:16PM
Fewer
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday October 31 2014, @09:22PM
Actually, as you will no doubt learn from direct experience, everybody will stop having sex sooner or later.
Remember: a kid believes his prick will be useful through his whole life only for pissing. An old wise man is sure of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford