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(Reuters) Brazil and the European Union agreed on Monday to lay an undersea communications cable from Lisbon to Fortaleza to reduce Brazil's reliance on the United States after Washington spied on Brasilia.
At a summit in Brussels, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said the $185 million cable project was central to "guarantee the neutrality" of the Internet, signaling her desire to shield Brazil's Internet traffic from U.S. surveillance. According to other sources, the construction is scheduled to begin in July.
A joint venture between Brazilian telecoms provider Telebras and Spain's IslaLink Submarine Cables would lay the communications link. Telebras would have a 35 percent stake, IslaLink would have a 45 percent interest and European and Brazilian pension funds could put up the remainder.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @09:30PM
"Until the people of those countries are prepared to take to the streets to get their governments under control, they are complicit in the errors of that government."
I'm American and I fully support such activities. Unfortunately, I've stopped trying to explain the reasoning and logic for my opinion because any contrarian opinions on this subject get savagely modded down to -1 troll. I only post anonymously on these stories now. It's just too dangerous to post contrarian opinions that go against the groupthink on Slashdot and here.