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- iPanda, on 09/01/2008, -6/+80OH NO, the US is no longer the centre of the internet world.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -2/+68Whew...a front page article that is not about Sarah Palin.
- Hellman109, on 09/01/2008, -17/+78So the US is pissed it cant spy on people outside the US...
Too bad so sad from the rest of the world: haha go away we dont like you anyway. - bixby1, on 09/01/2008, -0/+56"Since passage of the Patriot Act, many companies based outside of the United States have been reluctant to store client information in the U.S"
I don't blame them. I feel like even my porn stash is at risk these days. - ssavoy, on 09/01/2008, -4/+51Isn't the Internet international anyway?
Also, maybe if companies like Cumcast improved their horrible network instead of capping customers we'd be improving our Internet speeds. But no! Just halt the improvement of the net. - arjie, on 09/01/2008, -5/+51Thank god. The U.S. has laws that allow their people to search your laptop for whatever they want at their borders. With that, and the whole warrantless wiretapping business, I'd rather the U.S. Government have little ability to exercise control over the Internet. It'll be so easy also to justify, because it won't even be American citizens, so anything'll fly. Let this be so.
- nerddtvg, on 09/01/2008, -2/+27If we stop building up our Internet capabilities, how am I going to get any faster DSL than 192kbps? I can't move again...
- Ferre1, on 09/01/2008, -4/+28I just read about that in the largest Dutch newspaper. Apparently the world outside the USA doesn't appreciate their spying and since the patriot act was enacted the internet traffic going through the US has dropped from 70% of all internet traffic to now 25% and it's still going down.
It's not "beginning" to shift, it's only 25% what's left, knowing that the US population is only 5% of the world population I can see it drop even further. - Andrwmorph, on 09/01/2008, -7/+30McCain: "Traffic? Why are there cars in the internet?"
- samimnot, on 09/01/2008, -1/+19I hear ya, man....lol
I had to start burying them all, without even reading them. I've been for Obama for a long time...but I really dislike the gutter politics involved, from both sides. - redcolumbine, on 09/01/2008, -0/+18You mean they don't want to be profiled, archived, and assessed for marketing potential, then the information sold to the highest bidder(s)? What on earth is their problem?
- DigSomeMore, on 09/01/2008, -7/+23Hmm, pretty interesting...
- GarciasCheese, on 09/01/2008, -1/+14Title should be modified for Digg; should have read, "Sarah Palin Spawns Lovechild That Is Responsible for Internet Traffic that Bypasses The U.S. via the Bridge To Nowhere on a Snowmobile while eating Moose."
- SecureXeC, on 09/01/2008, -1/+13Uhh... It has nothing to do with the Patriot Act or anything else involving our Government.
We make up, what, 3-5% of the world's population? It's bound to happpen. - netneutrality, on 09/01/2008, -2/+13Freudian slip?
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -0/+11No, massive heap of winning truth!
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………………………..¯””^~~~~^” - rald84, on 09/01/2008, -1/+11its not a submarine, its a series of underwater tubes!
- ileftfark, on 09/01/2008, -0/+9If you'd even check who you are replying to, you would realize you've called an Australian "Euro-trash".
You're not making a good case for we Americans. - 4321234, on 09/01/2008, -0/+9http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
- jokerhl, on 09/01/2008, -0/+8And the Patriot Act looms it's ugly head over the internet.
- dha07030, on 09/01/2008, -0/+8I had that stuff blocked so I did a search and all I can say is, WOW.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -2/+9The internet will evolve.
- samimnot, on 09/01/2008, -0/+7"Since passage of the Patriot Act, many companies based outside of the United States have been reluctant to store client information in the U.S., There is an ongoing concern that U.S. intelligence agencies will gather this information without legal process."
Hmmm...I wonder why they think that? - maasox74, on 09/01/2008, -0/+7It sure isn't, there are plenty of them: China, North Corea, Afghanistan...
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -0/+7Did you really laugh out loud?
- LoveWidescreen, on 09/01/2008, -5/+11Why is this even a big deal? The whole nature of the Internet is supposed to be to have multiple paths to get to different sites so that if a node goes down the traffic flows in a different path. Everybody is putting a political spin on this, but as far as I'm concerned it's not even news. It's the Internet just becoming more of what the Internet is supposed to be.
Oh, wait. It helps to feed an anti-American sentiment. That explains why it's news. My bad. And security concerns? Please. Do you really think that what few allies we still have won't let us tap into their network somehow? Pfft.. - keraneuology, on 09/01/2008, -0/+5Sheesh... yet another git who thinks that the world wide web is all that there is to the bloody internet. Tim was the first to set up an http connection. Your claim makes as much sense as stating that Henry Ford invented the road.
- bigbangbuddha, on 09/01/2008, -2/+7Good, the U.S. government needs a wake up call that it doesn't own the worlds thoughts. America can play big brother with its own people all she wants but keep your hands of the rest of the world. The U.S. needs to remember its the newbie here, for just over 50 years shes acted like she owns the planet and has muscled, conned, and bought her way into every other countries business. Using the internet as a spying portal on the rest of the world may be "militarily" strategic but politically its underhanded and rotten (the cold war is over, get over it). Once the it realizes its only 1/20th of the worlds population and starts acting like a normal country maybe the rest of the world will start doing business with it again, and maybe fewer hate groups will be spawned against her. In the meantime, the internet belongs to 'We The People - of Earth'.
- Tommyhawk, on 09/01/2008, -1/+6Goal of the Patriot Act was to make us safer but the result is less traffic flows through our networks hence making us less safe. Yet another example of regulation having the opposite of the intended effect.
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- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -2/+7Or he can just get a Girlfriend.
- violentvinyl, on 09/01/2008, -0/+5I'm pretty sure the speed at which you connect to Comcast has very little to do with international routing patterns. There really isn't any logical reason for traffic between two countries to be routed through the US, the only reason it happens now is because of inefficiently designed infrastructure. If anything, this is a good thing, its the result of other countries beefing up their infrastructure.
- jasongbc, on 09/01/2008, -0/+4It's like that bitch you can't leave your phone around because you know she's going through your text messages.
- sodoh, on 09/01/2008, -0/+4Thats why you should get a porn buddy. At the first sign of being renditioned your buddy will go around to your house and remove all the porn in case your parents find it.
- violentvinyl, on 09/01/2008, -0/+4This isn't a result of the decline of US infrastructure, it's a result of improved infrastructure around the world. There was never a reason for foreign traffic to be routed through the US other than the fact that in some cases it was the only way it would work or it worked much faster.
- gubatron2, on 09/01/2008, -0/+4I love how fast its doing so. the internet today is so different that only 4 years ago.
- Seidoger, on 09/01/2008, -3/+7Oh no, can't spy no more. Boohoo. US cries.
- Ultra99, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3Ah finally - outsourcing done right.
- TSK05, on 09/01/2008, -2/+5The patriot act wasn't quite enacted a decade ago when it was 70% of traffic going through US.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3HaHa Now that would work. Or Sarah hit a tube while snowmobiling, and took down Digg.
- jessehadden, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3There is nothing bad about this. It's how the Internet is designed. It's interesting that we live in such a time, and in such a nation (for those of us who do live here), that we consider this natural evolution of the Internet from the angle of losing an exploitable advantage over everybody.
- Seidoger, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3Hahaha that was awesome
- VitriolAndAngst, on 09/01/2008, -1/+4You mean that having direct, point-to-point internet traffic that isn't centralized in a country that is busy censoring inconvenient truths wasn't kind of inevitable?
Dang, I guess that button that said; "Stop bad news" that cost taxpayers $500 Billion was a waste of money. And charging the public, high fees for internet access that we paid for with tax dollars, while they throttle the speed, probably isn't attractive to other nations.
We charge to much for our services -- and they go elsewhere. Because Europe has a free market. We, however, get expensive broadband, cell-phones, and are becoming a backwater in the world of progress because we have leaders who say; "There is nothing we can do for our future but have more drilling, and keep using oil, like we did for 50 years."
These are all just symptoms of the real issue; corporate control of our government, is forcing inefficiencies upon us. While we can be forced to endure these things, because everyone pays too much for poor service, it is not, however, something that the rest of the world can be forced to deal with. - inactive, on 09/01/2008, -1/+4You do know that terrorists look at porn, right?
- rishid, on 09/01/2008, -10/+13I think it is more along the lines that the rest of the world doesn't like the U.S.
- jasongbc, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2Of course they do!
"Porn FUNDS terrorism!"
-I'm sure you could find a republican that would tell you that. - gubatron2, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2let's hope marketers all over the world realize this, it's effing hard to monetize traffic outside us and it's so easy to get it.
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