There is a facebook group or fan page for bringing this to Grand Rapids already<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Raymond McLaughlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:driveray@ameritech.net">driveray@ameritech.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">john-thomas richards wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:06:49AM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:<br>
>> <a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/10-Reasons-Why-a-Google-Fiber-Network-Could-Reshape-the-ISP-Landscape-732801/" target="_blank">http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/10-Reasons-Why-a-Google-Fiber-Network-Could-Reshape-the-ISP-Landscape-732801/</a><br>
>><br>
>> A good set of points showing why Google's fiber effort could be a good<br>
>> thing. As it is, Comcast and others simply want to milk the existing<br>
>> system - bandwidth tiers, monthly byte limits - all within the same,<br>
>> tired system. i.e., there is is no real competition at this point.<br>
>><br>
>> -- Bob<br>
><br>
> I don't know that I'd trust Google. They're an advertising company.<br>
> They can already tell what I had for breakfast based on the web sites I<br>
> visit in the morning. That's scary. If they have access to my entire<br>
> stream....yikes.<br>
<br>
</div>True enough, but *any* private corporation is, by definition, a self<br>
interested entity, and so can only be trusted to pursue it's own best<br>
interests. (Public corporations are *supposed* to to be different ...)<br>
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