Google's Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday US online spying is a threat so dire it could wind up 'breaking the internet.' The discussion was about economic and regulatory backlash caused by a US spying scandal that has undermined trust in US internet firms ability or willingness to keep people's online communications private. Threats are already emerging as countries [eg Brazil] propose trade barriers disguised as regulations calling for internet companies to host data or services locally, instead of on servers in the United States, panelists said.First and foremost: NSA is not a "threat" to the net. NSA IS the net. Repeat, NSA IS the net. NSA invented the net. What Schmidt really means, of course, is that NSA's spying UNFAIRLY COMPETES with Google's spying. Google wants to be everything, and it's almost there. All obstacles to the Categorical Imperative GOOGLE = UNIVERSE (AND MORE) shall be obliterated. Countries like Brazil and Russia and Turkey are not automatic slaves to Goldman or Morgan or Schmidt or Zuckerberg. They adhere to a bizarre obsolete unimaginable notion that a nation should "serve its own people", whatever that means. Google cannot allow
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