If economic strength, drives political strength and international standing (hopefully no one has any illusions that it doesn't do both). And USA's economic strength is currently predicated on intellectual property (which can then manufactured somewhere else) then how do we (as a nation...or any nation) protect ourselves from the array of network attacks that are launched against us? I think some sort of national firewall or cooperative agreement is a good idea to help protect against those countries that steal our strength. Maybe this can be optional/opt-in by company, but the high-costs and large holes of network defense right now are letting 100's of billions of $ fly out of the country every year. There may eventually be a separate secure network and the wild-wild west internet we know today.