[pivnicek]

This train wreck keeps getting avoided by the community, but the choo bloody choo is pulling in at the station with a big bomb that has already gone off, but people are just slow to notice.

Snowden killed the USA-centric internet.

Let's see what we can make out of the rubble.

[saosebastiao]

No...the NSA killed the USA centric internet...Snowden just revealed the reason why it shouldn't be trusted.

[saraid216]

It's okay, dude. Snowden has already been canonized by the Hacker Church. You don't have to defend him anymore.

[saraid216]

> Snowden killed the USA-centric internet.

I am quite okay with this.

[phaer]

> Snowden killed the USA-centric internet.

Which - without doubt - is a good thing, for foreigners like me as well as for us citizens who do not want to depend on a trusted government for free communication.

[saraid216]

There are an entire list of reasons why a USA-centric internet is a bad thing even without the privacy considerations. Not least of which is the fact that the US is effectively worst-in-class when it comes to Internet adoption. And not coincidentally, also the most ravenously capitalistic society. To far too many Americans, the Internet is a profit mechanism, not an infrastructure.