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Brazil, Europe Direct Cable to avoid US spying

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the Take-my-data-and-go-home dept.
c0lo writes: "Reuters reports

(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.

So it has come to this"

 
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  • (Score: 1) by HiThere on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:55PM

    by HiThere (866) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:55PM (#7083)

    That attitude might make you feel good and righteous, but it doesn't accomplish anything else.

    People react strongly against things that affect them strongly. Weakly against things that affect them weakly. And unless it is extremely detrimental to them, they, in mass, tend to go along with the accepted authorities. (Of course, different groups select different authorities, and I don't quite understand the basis for that selection, but it's clearly not wisdom.)

    Also people's social structures tend to be hierarchical. This is probably a bad choice, particularly when so many accepted authorities are malign, but to counterbalance this they also usually have multiple hierarchies that they accept.

    You are asking mass rejection of multiple levels of hierarchical authority on multiple different hierarchies for matters that don't strongly affect them. You aren't going to get any large response to this, except possibly among the age groups of 15-23, and mainly males. And small responses aren't going to be effective. (There have been protests, but they've been largely ignored.)

    A part of the problem is that the bulge of the population is no longer in the late-teens through early-adult age group, it's mainly older now. Another problem is that there has been corporate buy-outs of most channels of media. And things that are not acceptable to the owners are strongly downplayed...or even just not mentioned. So even among those likely to respond, the news just doesn't get out in a synchronized manner, as it did in the 1960's-1980's.

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    Put not your faith in princes.