OSLO: The United States' alleged large-scale surveillance of global communications networks will badly harm the US cloud computing industry, the founder of Wikipedia said on Thursday.
Jimmy Wales, who launched the online encyclopaedia service 12 years ago, said the US eavesdropping, revealed by leaks from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, also poses a threat to Internet freedoms by giving an excuse to oppressive regimes to introduce more censorship.
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