Brazil’s controversial plan to extricate the internet from US control | World news | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/brazil-dilma-rousseff-internet-us-control
To do this, Rousseff proposed a set of ambitious, and controversial, measures that include: constructing submarine cables that do not route through the US, building internet exchange points in Brazil, creating an encrypted email service through the state postal service and having Facebook, Google and other companies store data by Brazilians on servers in Brazil.❞