a question for non USA internet users

[DonCoquixote]

Since the NSA has compromised the internet,it is very likely that the rest of the world will try to, at the very least, remove the hold the US has on it. I am hoping we do not have a Balkanized, divided internet as a result..

I ask, what sort of "global" internet would develop? Would it be organized by the UN,for example?

Part of me also wants to ask a question that might sound rude, but it not meant as such. Much has been made of Google being so powerful. I wanted to ask EU members, is there any plan to make an EU answer to Google?

What shocked me is that there was none that I knew of. If anything, being socialists, I could imagine the EU taking people from Oxford, the Sorbonne, Salamanca, and other EU Universities, and having them make one, using their advantage as Socialists, to make something that did NOT have shareholders gumming the works, to open the vast resources of Europe open for non profit, and using that to increase European culture. Is that possible?

[greymattermom]

1. country based internet is a farce anyway

I found out last week from a friend that you can bypass China's censorship by using VPN to a computer in another country. This must happen all the time. The only thing they know about you is your IP address, and you can easily change it. I'm old and not very computer savvy, but I know how to have my posts show a Kansas City IP when I'm anywhere in the world.

[MADem]

2. It happens in Iran, but the government is always trying to slow the net down

particularly during the election season.

In Cuba, the government limits access to the net as well.