This article explains it well. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/10/internet_balkanization_may_be_a_side_effect_of_the_snowden_surveill

This article explains it well. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/10/internet_balkanization_may_be_a_side_effect_of_the_snowden_surveillance.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/1... Tech companies controlled directly by us politicians will probably make this existing backlash worse.