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Since this is probably the 20th PRISM story today, here's a pitch for a new startup:

darkness.io is a incredible startup that is a complete game changer. I founded darkness.io after realizing that there is an untapped 383221 billion dollar opportunity in removal of prism stories from the web.

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We haven't created our product yet, so we are looking a real javascript samurai to join our team so they can build it for us. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for you to be a part of the next big thing. We have free food, unlimited vacation, generous equity compensation. Also each week we give you a new iSpy just for being amazing.

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The alternative is much simpler. Base the business in Europe or elsewhere outside the US. The US is a big and important market, but there is nothing preventing cloud services on the scale of AWS moving offshore just as manufacturing has and professional services are.

If it introduces latency and "credit card call center" style interface barriers, that doesn't mean it cannot be profitable.

There is a large market which sees itself as receiving no benefit from the American military-industrial complex as it is manifesting itself on the web. The laws which enable PRISM may place US companies at a disadvantage. PRISM affordance is not a feature in most people's minds. Indeed, it is a bug in many.


Europe yes, UK no. Our government will happily funnel over anything the US asks for, including actual people(1).

I'd go French. Because as Eddie Izzard put it (roughly), "the French are so.... French "

(1)Yes, I am aware of the one single exception. Who I'm not so sure the US Government wanted to really that bothered with. Bad PR and all that.


The political will to align the UK's interests with the US is just that - political will. It depends upon a mandate from the people, not the law of gravity. Political constants are lexically scoped within representative forms of democracy.




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