[wladimir]

Uncertainly, as usual, is my guess. For one thing (more paranoid) people are worried that the fallout from PRISM, the realization how easily everything is monitored, will cause a loss of trust in the internet, resulting in laws that damage it internationally. Maybe even a balkanization of global networks. Bitcoin will have a harder time operating without a united internet.

[shubb]

It does put China's insistence on a local internet, surrounded by a 'fire wall', and serviced by local companies, in a very different perspective doesn't it.