As sexual congress between the US and Europe become increasingly strained because , uh , the NSA spied on 35 world leader , the state - backed Deutsche Telekom has declared that it require to create a home cyberspace to protect Germany from future seclusion infringements .
https://gizmodo.com/report-the-nsas-been-spying-on-35-world-leaders-1451598576
Deutsche Telekom is drum up other German communications companies to conjoin force and harbour local cyberspace traffic from external intelligence services , reports Reuters . Obviously , that ’s a rather bold aim , and would be incredibly tricky to pull off — not least because , without banning the likes of Facebook and Google , it ca n’t be a blanket protection scheme .
There ’s a big concern , too , if that was the plan : creating a separate country - specific internet goes totally against the grain of what the net stomach for . It would be deep concern if a rural area like Germany really wanted to lock down the internet access of its population in such a direction , not least because it would sic a worrying precedent and could usher in a Balkanisation of the net .
All in , it remains to be seen how serious the suggestions are . But for the sake of the internet , let ’s hope that it does n’t come to much . [ Reuters ]
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