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Tuesday 31 July 2007

As fantastic a tool the Internet has become and can be, it still has not reached every one of our citizens and our businesses. Only half of America has broadband access to the Internet, and overall we are falling behind other countries both in how many people have broadband and the quality of that service. The high-speed Internet has become a tool for the rich first, not because of any conspiracy but because the rich is where the money is. Market players have worked the levers of government to create a scarcity for Internet access when it is naturally abundant. We need to protect the Internet from the control of those who would prefer to make it scarce and guarantee that its value is delivered equally from the poorest to the richest citizen. Who Will Be America’s First TechPresident?

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