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Only One US City Makes "Top Ten Internet Cities Worldwide" List

Posted by samzenpus on from the clicking-it-twice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new report today has ranked the Top 10 'Internet Cities' around the globe, based on a set of five criteria: connection speed, availability of citywide WiFi, openness to innovation, support of public data, and security/data privacy. One might expect high-tech cities like San Francisco and Tel Aviv to appear on a list of 'Internet Cities,' but they don't. Indeed, no Middle Eastern cities appear here at all, and — due, largely, to the United States' poor Internet speeds — the only US city to make this ranking is Seattle."

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  1. American priorities by MetalliQaZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Okay, that may be so, but can we get list of highest telco/cableco profit cities? I bet USA totally rocks that list.

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    "Here Lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"
    1. Re:American priorities by Seumas · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Actually, the really important metrics are less "how fast and how easily available", but how controlled, censored, and monitored?

      I'll take my 30mbps, home-bound-connection-only service without censorship or monitoring (if it existed) over 200mbps or free city-wide-wifi anywhere that content is heavily filtered or monitored any day.

  2. Re:Seriously? by MetalliQaZ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those countries aren't the worlds biggest economy. Those countries didn't pioneer the Internet.

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    "Here Lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"
  3. Re:Seriously? by allcoolnameswheretak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    God knows I'm not usually one to cite Jesus, but whatever happened to "turn the other cheek"? After 9/11, the World Trade Center should have been rebuilt and the muslim community in the U.S. should have been embraced and integrated. The message to terrorists and the world should have been; while extremists celebrate fear and death, we celebrate our freedom, pluralism and life.
    It's amazingly hypocritical that the religious conservatives in the U.S. are often the first to favor a heavy handed, military approach to resolving conflict.