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I'd like to read your opinions on what this means for the evolution of the internet outside the US. Will the US internet become somehow separate from the world

I'd like to read your opinions on what this means for the evolution of the internet outside the US. Will the US internet become somehow separate from the world wide web ? Will it be harder or easier for international companies to have access to the US market ? and conversely will it be harder or easier for US based companies to have access to international customers? Thank you for your insights.

madamelic 9y ago
If a service's servers are run in the US, "ISPs" could charge more to that service to pipe that data out of the country using their lines. It would only affect international people if a company's servers only existed inside of the US, which exempts all large startups that have co-located servers. It would affect all traffic of people in the US though since the ISP can charge services to pipe in to their lines and charge consumers to pipe out of their lines.