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> The major powers don't do it, in turn, because they have more to gain from trade than from piracy. Don't you think that applies to the Internet, too?
by raldi 12y ago
> The major powers don't do it, in turn, because they have more to gain from trade than from piracy.
Don't you think that applies to the Internet, too?
- rayiner 12y agoMaybe. Spying is less invasive than piracy and less likely to dampen commerce. Is anyone not going to shop at Amazon because the government might spy on the transaction?
- EthanHeilman 12y agoThat is the claim the story makes for instance: >Wyden himself cited a study from Forrester Research that found that surveillance concerns could cost U.S. companies a quarter of their foreign revenue by 2016. The bigger issue is not consumer behavior but how Nation-States react. If they balkanize and securitize the internet then consumers may not be able to access amazon/google/facebook even if they wanted to (see Great Firewall of China). This is exactly the point Google and members of the US Senate are making in the article.
- raldi 12y agoYes; that's kinda the whole theme of the article.