The funny part is, if the EU cuts off the US, they also cut most of their connections to each other. Seems that their well-regulated telco monopolies can't seem to agree on how to set up peering arrangements, so large chunks of the intra-Europe IP traffic goes by way of New York and Washington DC.
Okay, I get it, he hates America and thinks that if anyone is going to excercise hegemony over European nations, it should be other European nations. Dumbass, it's called "Divide and Conquer", if the large multi-nationals (which these days are no more American than they are Bermudan, which is where they are theoretically based) wanted to make rebuilding the Internet in their image easier, they'd start by splitting it up into chunks that were easier to manage.
There *are* two spaces, always have been. One where we eat, piss, and fuck, and another where we think, converse, cooperate, and compete. That dichotomy has always been there, all the internet did was remove the last of the trappings of a connection. There's entire worlds in there, I know because I've helped build a couple of them, that have nothing to do with meatspace.
--Dave Rickey
