Google analyst: U.S. Internet needs to get faster -CNN

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Google analyst: U.S. Internet needs to get faster

Mountain View, California (CNN) — Google long has been an advocate of a single Web, one that’s free of government censorship and barriers to information access.

That’s not the reality in today’s world however.

Governments from China to France put various roadblocks in the information superhighway to serve their interests, filter speech or protect copyrights.

And high-speed Internet connections haven’t reached all corners of the globe — not even all parts of the United States.

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I have been long saying this and America fell behind because of the GOP.  The GOP obviously has a vested interest in keeping information speeds low so as to prevent (or, at least delay) the uncovering of their lies.  During the Bush Administration, the United States fell behind Europe and Japan in Internet speeds.  While Comcast and Verizon were raving about 10MBit downloads, Japan had 100Mbit to the homes.  For Japan, 10Mbit was so 1998.

Posted by maschwar on February 8, 2010. Filed under Science and Tech,Tech Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.