[Chapter-delegates] WIFI in Repote Areas

[Evan Leibovitch]

Agreed. In the balloon project, Google seems to be innovating in ways that
will provide real benefit in refugee camps and areas in which quality
Internet access ... of any kind ... has been a struggle.

Yes, there are valid concerns about market power, but I can't think of many
fields in which the company has used unethical tactics to reduce
competition.

As for the media frenzy over PRIZM and Google voluntary complicity
(especially compared to that of other USA based firms), I'm reserving
judgement. Right now I'm having a hard time navigating around the
apologists, the apathetic, the fearmongers and the conspiracy theorists.

All three issues - universal Internet access, market concentration and
PRIZM - are important to us, but mixing them indiscriminately doesn't help.

- Evan (via mobile)
On 2013-06-16 3:44 PM, "Carlos M. Martinez" <carlosmarcelomartinez at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  What does it have to do with the poor balloons ?
>
> On 6/16/13 3:39 PM, Gary W Kenward wrote:
>
> I am surprised that so little is being said about Google's growing
> monopoly on information, globally.
>
>  Particularly in light of the recent disclosures concerning project
> PRISM, which includes Google providing information to the NSA.
>
>  Gary
>
>  On 2013.06.16, at 11:46 AM, Glenn McKnight <contact at internetsociety.ca>
> wrote:
>
>  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=192277280
>
>  Google scientists have been testing a way to link computers to the
> internet in rural, war torn or disaster areas where high speed internet
> does not exist. We hear from Steven Levy, a senior writer with Wired
> magazine who was embedded with the Google team.
> Glenn McKnight
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