Re: <nettime> Yochai Benkler: Time to tame the NSA behemoth

[Felix Stalder <felix@openflows.com>]

Meanwhile, another take on the same issue. This time by Google's Eric Schmidt.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/13/eric-schmidt-google-nsa-surveillance


"There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and 
so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of 
our society."

And the problem with all of this is, according to Schmidt:

"The real danger [from] the publicity about all of this is that other 
countries will begin to put very serious encryption – we use the term 
'balkanization' in general – to essentially split the internet and that 
the internet's going to be much more country specific. That would be a 
very bad thing, it would really break the way the internet works, and I 
think that's what I worry about."







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