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Anonymous ID: 017d7c Sept. 21, 2018, 7:15 a.m. No.3120497   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0506 >>0518 >>0528

Eric Schmidt, who has been the CEO of Google and executive chairman of its parent company, Alphabet, predicts that within the next decade there will be two distinct internets: one led by the U.S. and the other by China.

 

Schmidt shared his thoughts at a private event in San Francisco on Wednesday night convened by investment firm Village Global VC. The firm enlists tech luminaries — including Schmidt, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Diane Green — as limited partners, then invests their money into early-stage tech ventures.

 

At the event, economist Tyler Cowen asked, "What are the chances that the internet fragments over the years?" Schmidt said:

 

"I think the most likely scenario now is not a splintering, but rather a bifurcation into a Chinese-led internet and a non-Chinese internet led by America.

 

If you look at China, and I was just there, the scale of the companies that are being built, the services being built, the wealth that is being created is phenomenal. Chinese Internet is a greater percentage of the GDP of China, which is a big number, than the same percentage of the US, which is also a big number.

 

If you think of China as like 'Oh yeah, they're good with the Internet,' you're missing the point. Globalization means that they get to play too. I think you're going to see fantastic leadership in products and services from China. There's a real danger that along with those products and services comes a different leadership regime from government, with censorship, controls, etc.

 

Look at the way BRI works – their Belt and Road Initiative, which involves 60-ish countries – it's perfectly possible those countries will begin to take on the infrastructure that China has with some loss of freedom."

Anonymous ID: 017d7c Sept. 21, 2018, 7:30 a.m. No.3120648   🗄️.is 🔗kun

In 2013, documents leaked by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the existence of numerous surveillance programs jointly operated by the Five Eyes. The following list includes several notable examples reported in the media:

 

PRISM – Operated by the NSA together with the GCHQ and the ASD[53][54]

 

XKeyscore – Operated by the NSA with contributions from the ASD and the GCSB[55]

 

Tempora – Operated by the GCHQ with contributions from the NSA[56][57]

 

MUSCULAR – Operated by the GCHQ and the NSA[58]

 

STATEROOM – Operated by the ASD, CIA, CSE, GCHQ, and NSA[59]

 

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes