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You might as well try boycotting US customers as well -- both are phenomenally impossible to accomplish but the end-goal is still the same.
by ihsw 13y ago
You might as well try boycotting US customers as well -- both are phenomenally impossible to accomplish but the end-goal is still the same.
- alan_cx 13y agoHave actually read it all the way through, or are you just reacting to the title?
- 1morepassword 13y agoBoycotting US customers should be easy. After all, US companies have perfected the art of boycotting non-US customers... Anyway, boycotting US cloud tech is not that hard, albeit a bit inconvenient in some cases. In many cases putting data within legal reach of the US government is simply illegal, so an entire market has sprung up to offer services that guarantee non US ownership and no data and services within US jurisdiction. And this is just for the sake of regulatory compliance. In fact, it's probably the #1 selling point for non-US cloud services already. The NSA shitstorm is not exactly going to have a negative impact on that market...
- alan_cx 13y agoIsn't it already being done? Don't gambling sites have to block US users?
- brudgers 13y agoThat is the nature of disruption - it starts with imagining something contrary to the conventional wisdom. Anyway, there's no need to boycotte them, just let them live with latency in exchange for privacy. After all, the past dozen years have shown that US customers don't yet place much value on privacy. Incidentally, the scale for disrupting the US's state sponsored dominance of the internet could readily be implemented at the state sponsored level in another country, and claims and disputes over access to markets made at the WTO level. Among the BRIC's, Brazil and India are particularly well placed - neither has a massive security apparatus. Mexico by proximity is also positioned to serve the US from "offshore."