<story><title>Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet</title><url>http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Brazil-looks-to-break-from-US-centric-Internet-4819946.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tedivm</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m glad I hit refresh and saw that the sensationalist title was edited, but even without that I think this article is a bit over the top. What they&amp;#x27;re doing is simple-&lt;p&gt;* Building more direct connections between themselves and other countries, to reduce the amount of traffic going through the US.&lt;p&gt;* Encouraging companies to host data directly in Brazil, so their privacy laws can be enforced for their citizens.&lt;p&gt;* Developing an encrypted email service to reduce US spying.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not surprising, and it&amp;#x27;s certainly not going to balkanize the internet. What it could do is cost US companies a ton of money in lost revenue as services move out of the country.</text></comment>
<story><title>Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet</title><url>http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Brazil-looks-to-break-from-US-centric-Internet-4819946.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cfontes</author><text>My country never fails to embarrass me.&lt;p&gt;Brazil is the world leader in saying that it&amp;#x27;s going to do something awesome and completely forgetting about doing something in order to make that happen.&lt;p&gt;Nothing is going to happen.&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;p&gt;In order to have a seat in one of the trips to the international space station, Brazil should develop and build some of the windows of it.&lt;p&gt;We didn&amp;#x27;t and not because we don&amp;#x27;t know how, it was because of politics.
In order to make it appear that we didn&amp;#x27;t fail to the population, the president bought a X million dollars flight ticket to a random guy that today earns money by giving speeches about how dreams come true with hard work and that you can become an astronaut just like him.&lt;p&gt;The biggest part of the population thinks we earned it by doing something useful for the mission.&lt;p&gt;I can go on and on about this events if you need more.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/world/americas/08rio.html?_r=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2006&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;americas&amp;#x2F;08rio.html?...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Space_Agency#International_Space_Station&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Brazilian_Space_Agency#Internat...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;p.s: look the schedules for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics and you have a second example.</text></comment>