General Should the Internet Be Like the Public Library?

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As Americans, we love to think we're number one, but the truth is that when it comes to internet speed we're pretty mediocre.

In fact, one recent study put the U.S. at number 31 in the world in overall download speed, lagging behind much smaller and less developed countries like Estonia, Hungary, and Slovakia.

Internet speeds in the U.S. average out around 20.77 megabits per second, which is less than half of the average internet speed in Hong Kong, which has the world's fastest internet.

For a country like ours, the country that invented the internet and is home to some of the world's most powerful tech companies, this is just embarrassing.

But now residents of the small town of Rockport, Maine will get to experience the kind of super high-speed internet that the rest of the world has access to on a daily basis.

That's because on Monday, Rockport officially launched its very own municipally-owned fiber-optic internet network.

Read more here. (Truthout)
 
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