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A call to boycott U.S. tech platforms over the NSA's PRISM surveillance

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I wouldn't call this a call to boycott. On my part, I have quit dropbox for Norwegian company Jottacloud, Google Search for DuckDuckGo and I will pretty soon quit Chrome (for Opera, I think) and Android (for Firefox OS or Ubuntu Mobile)...

Opera is now based on Chromium. I know it's open source, but to be on the safe side, I would avoid opera too.

You really think Opera could be risky, too? So... only Firefox?

Eh, any non-FOSS is risky by default.

www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html

What is the Non-U.S. alternative to Rackspace?

> The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

This seems really central to me.

A system that's corrupted by the use of mass surveillance will ultimately lead to bad/wrong policy decisions (decisions which favor a few ultra-rich people). And everybody knows the weight of the impact of US policy decisions on the rest of the world (= humanity).

There is a conflict of interest between this post and HN:

HN's goal is also to promote YC start-ups (directly and indirectly), and they happen to be US-based.

Yes, it seems this post was de-listed?

The post was flagged by a lot of users.

I think this is interesting and singular because it came from Harvard and the title was not edited by me. Also the post was flagged but upvoted at the same time. I don't know many articles that fit in this pattern.

Probably people thought it came from a radical author since similar articles attract discussions instead of flagging.

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