It's not that controversial - as we have detected that there's hostile wiretapping happening, a rational mitigation strategy requires (in the long-term) infrastructure that would route data between, say, Brazil and EU in a way that doesn't involve USA.
In a sense, not trying to isolate Brazil, but making it technically possible to avoid USA if the rest of the world needs to. A few years earlier it could be argued that it can work something like 'benevolent dicatorship', but now it's clear that letting USA hold full control of the Internet is nearly as dangerous as letting, say, Russia or China do so. Currently Internet is not really independent, too much of core infrastructure goes through USA - and it obviously needs to change.