“Cyber-sovereignty is not the answer to the problems of government surveillance, because it is government run. Stripped of government, CS can indeed be a powerful alternative to wrest the Internet from US control. However, a free market based CS approach focused on decentralization, open source initiatives, innovative Internet services, internationalized domain extensions, and domestic alternatives to social networking sites and search engines can help shift more Internet traffic away from US services and servers.”
http://www.internationalman.com/78-global-perspectives/1029-internationalizing-the-internet
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