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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Rui<br>
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I agree with your concerns Rui. We seem to moving towards a situation
where 'google is the Internet' for many practical purposes. If we do
remember the maxim of 'absolute power corrupts absolutely' we can see
that we are headed towards major regulatory issues which need to be
taken cognizance of early. However I do feel that in the US, which is
illegitimately the digital regulation capital of the world, Google
seems to have too much influence with the new ruling dispensation. In
any case such is the hold of neoliberal beliefs that it is almost
certain that - like in the case of the financial meltdown - the world
will have to wait for major crises before the needed (democratic)
global regulation of digital spaces begins to take shape. Parminder <br>
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Is this not going to atract anti-trust/ cross-ownership attention?<br>
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Google has announced plans to build a number of trial fibre-to-the-home
(FTTH) networks in communities across the US, claiming that it will
provide broadband at downlink speeds of up to 1Gbps. James Kelly,
project manager on Google's infrastructure team, said: ‘We are doing
this because we want to experiment with new ways to make the web better
and faster for everyone, allowing new applications that aren't possible
today. We are going to try out new ways to build and operate fibre
networks and share what we learn with the world.’<br>
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