Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet

[GeorgeSoros]

Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward politically fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments.
President Dilma Rousseff has ordered a series of measures aimed at greater Brazilian online independence and security following revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted her communications, hacked into the state-owned Petrobras oil company's network and spied on Brazilians who entrusted their personal data to U.S. tech companies such as Facebook and Google. Read The Full Story

I doubt this will matter much, but it would hurt the Internet if suddenly Russia, China, and many south American countries decided they were going to have their own internet.

 

[Soldier Gryphon]

Sounds like you can't blame her after what the U.S. did.

 

[morfeeis]

Good for them, now if we could just get our own government to stop spying on us we'd be cool.....

 

[Videodrome]

I'm intrigued by this step.

It seems to me that Brazilians would still want to be able to email internationally though. Maybe Brazil-Net would have major Gateway Hubs to the bigger Internet. These could be secure filtered choke points all international data must go through.

Maybe have a Firewall at the Gateway just block many American IPs.

 

[sharkboy1200]

I'm not sure if this is good or bad in any way or form, but I'm intrigued by it for some reason. Personally, I always thought the internet was oversaw by a grand counsel of mighty wizards from Middle Earth. Should've known Sauron was slipping money underneath the table. Those decorative wands and staffs don't pay for themselves.