Google says U.S. Internet too slow
Mountain View, California (CNN) — Google long has been an advocate of a single Web, one that’s free of government censorship and barriers to information access.
That’s not the reality in today’s world however.
Governments from China to France put various roadblocks in the information superhighway to serve their interests, filter speech or protect copyrights.
And high-speed Internet connections haven’t reached all corners of the globe — not even all parts of the United States.
To learn more about this split between Google’s idea of an all-access Web and the reality today, CNN sat down recently with Derek Slater, one of Google’s policy analysts.