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Yes, “national security” is used to justify all manner of protectionism in this country. We sure love our oligopolies.
by voisin 6y ago
Yes, “national security” is used to justify all manner of protectionism in this country. We sure love our oligopolies.
- noarchy 6y ago>Yes, “national security” is used to justify all manner of protectionism in this country. We sure love our oligopolies. That and outright monopolies created by the government itself.
- rapind 6y agoYou know, with the amount of data some companies and governments are slurping up it might almost be justified... of course as a 5 eyes nation it's also pretty damn hypocritical.
- throw0101a 6y ago> You know, with the amount of data some companies and governments are slurping up it might almost be justified Which is why Bell Canada not peering at TorIX (and other Canadian IXPs) really annoys me. (Rogers, Telus, Cogeco, TekSavvy, etc, do.) * https://www.cira.ca/improving-canadas-internet/initiatives/canadas-internet-infrastructure-internet-exchange-points https://www.cira.ca/improving-canadas-internet/initiatives/c... Even major cloud hosting companies (AWS, Digital Ocean, OVH) have Canadian build-outs for folks that are sensitive to domestic/international issues, and yet if connect with Bell your traffic tends to go to Chicago and then back.