Google's Cloudflare

[BoL]

http://projectshield.withgoogle.com/

Invite only at the moment, and seems to be geared towards political sites and to 'protect freedom of expression'

I wonder what's in it for Google

[JasonD]

GoogleNet - I can see a time, very soon, where "the internet" is actually an intranet - Much like AOL, Compuserve days.

EG With the recent NSA news I can see Germany making a country specific net and truly believe Google are looking at owning all traffic through the same mechanism.