"That's life. That's how it's organised by Americans. You know all of this started during the dawn of the Internet as a special project of the CIA. And it keeps on developing."
[Information entered on Google] "all goes through servers that are in the States, everything is monitored there".
-Russian President Vladimir Putin, April 24, 2014.
He's right! Russia--and Germany and Brazil--are determining the feasibility of their own Googles, as China has done with Baidu and Weibo.
The Americans committed an enormous breach of trust on the internet. The Bush administration started it and the Obama administration continued it. Russians, Germans, Brazilians, Chinese--and millions of Americans--lost faith in America. There is no going back.
