USofA no longer has internet edge

USofA no longer has internet edge

www.nytimes.com

The era of the American Internet is ending.
Engineers who help run the Internet said that it would have been impossible for the United States to maintain its hegemony over the long run because of the very nature of the Internet; it has no central point of control.

And now, the balance of power is shifting. Data is increasingly flowing around the United States, which may have intelligence — and conceivably military — consequences.

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Looks like control & intel sources via internet is becomeing a weak point for the USA now that other nations have been on the net now. For example see this quote, it ssays it all.

“Because of the nature of global telecommunications, we are playing with a tremendous home-field advantage, and we need to exploit that edge,” Michael V. Hayden, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2006. “We also need to protect that edge, and we need to protect those who provide it to us.”

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Internet Censorship! wow I did not see that coming at all

Yep, already posted. Someone beat you to it.

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They beat you by about 8 minutes.
good find anyhow.

[edit on 30-8-2008 by johnsky]