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America desperately needs fiber internet, and the tech giants won’t save us — Recode

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Harvard’s Susan Crawford explains why we shouldn’t expect Google to fix slow internet speeds in the US, in a piece by Eric Johnson.

Here is the link: https://www.recode.net/2019/1/10/18175869/susan-crawford-fiber-book-internet-access-comcast-verizon-google-peter-kafka-media-podcast

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