What would you call a German-only Internet?

[Brazen]

Why, Internetz, of course! Somewhat under-reported, this one.

The US has the right to spy on any data held "on US soil", and American mega-servers must account for a hefty proportion of all data accessed online worldwide. Interesting the UK government is also using only UK based servers for its G-Cloud cloud computing programme.

The news that the National Security Agency has its eye on much of the world's electronic communications has shocked Germans, who have memories of Nazi and Cold War-era spying. Now, an alliance of German phone and Internet companies claims it has a solution: German e-mail and Internet transmitted within German borders.

The proposals — one for Internet, one for e-mail — aim to boost the security of Germany's internal communications by preventing them from bouncing outside the country, which has far stricter privacy regulations than the United States. If a German customer wants to call up a German Web site, there is no reason that the data must pass through a server in Virginia, exposing the information to potential surveillance, advocates say. The same goes for e-mails within Germany.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/germany-looks-at-keeping-its-internet-e-mail-traffic-inside-its-borders/2013/10/31/981104fe-424f-11e3-a751-f032898f2dbc_story.html

[Grey Fox]

About time the Rest of the World came to that realization.

[Sheilbh]

A compound word of seventeen syllables

[garbon]

Some security professionals say the efforts are little more than a marketing gimmick, since Germans would still want to surf American Web pages — Facebook, anyone? — and the nation's plans wouldn't make doing so any more secure. The NSA could also still theoretically access German data on German soil, as could Germany's intelligence agencies.

[Brazen]

A compound word of seventeen syllables

[Viking]

on the one hand german only internet - on the other hand cat videos lagging

[Neil]

A German internet would certainly make it easier for them to enforce their ridiculous laws.

[Ed Anger]

Boring