User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-82.168.125.187-20140205013230

America is a superpower on the way out. They still have sharp claws but they are rapidly losing grip on the world. They feel weak and vulnerable and surrounded by enemies. Once proud and rich cities like Detroit are collapsing, They are losing their economic power to China and their innovative power to South Korea. So they turn inward and erect protective fences around them, in the hope that will stop the decay. But it won't. It will speed it up. As it always does. Once strong companies dominating the world of technology: Microsoft, Google, Apple are now suspected criminal henchmen of the fear driven scared dogs in the NSA. Services like intelligent advertising and cloud support are distrusted and, indeed, unmasked as attempts to control and monitor the lives of others. Every American company is suspected in every country in the world because they are forced to participate in this global operation.

Soon the world will welcome competing systems from former dictatorships and police states like India, Russia and China, because at least they are not American.

Everything around this self cannibalising ruin of power is collapsing fast.