Posted on 10/09/2014 7:08:32 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The integrity of the Internet could be at risk if Congress does not act to rein in the National Security Agency, Google head Eric Schmidt warned on Wednesday.
Speaking alongside other tech executives and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) at a Silicon Valley event, Schmidt said the revelations about U.S. surveillance could prompt countries to wall off their networks.
“The simplest outcome: We’re going to end up breaking the Internet,” Schmidt said, “because what’s going to happen is governments will do bad laws of one kind or another, and eventually what’s going to happen is: ‘We’re going to have our own Internet in our own country, and we’re going to do it our way.’ ”
“It is fundamentally about breaking the Internet,” echoed Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch. “The Internet is a medium without borders, and the notion that you would have to place data and data centers and the data itself [in a particular location] … is fundamentally at odds with the way the Internet is architectured.”
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Nope. Not on the internet! Which is Schmidt's point.
Anyone who believes in borders on the internet does not believe in the First Amendment. Anyone who does not believe in the First Amendment is not American, even if born here!
Borders good.
Internet bad.
Borders are a good thing.... even internet borders.
If you had a clue, you would know that credit card fraud losses are at the level of single-digit basis points of volume. Card company profits are at the level of single-digit percentage points of volume.
The benefits of the internet far exceed its costs. And, BTW, credit card fraud existed before the internet. LOL!
Whatever you say woody. If you really believe allowing countries to hack into everything in this country... sure. The internet is wonderful.
i’d go’further and dismantle the entire nsa. or nuke it from orbit.
The CHUTZPAH of Google to suggest that it is the NSA that will result in “breaking” the Internet when it was Google who showed the world how it’s done by aiding China with their censoring demands to begin with. Consequences, Google. The U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights provide the guidelines which should be followed. Inviting breaches to that framework to make a buck will have consequences.
All of which is the result of NSA-inflicted damage to the underlying security systems.
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