It appears that Topeka, Kansas has decided that it is willing to to give up its basic identity to an Orwellian multinational corporation without even being asked. The town has changed its name to Google, Kansas for a month in an attempt to get Google to bring their Fiber for Communities program to Topeka.
As I mentioned before, Google fiber for communities is a terrible privacy risk, because it gives Google information about every piece of data that goes through their network. Once Google controls the infrastructure of the Internet, there is no more privacy.
See also: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Google
Another argument against Topeka’s decision is that Government entities (like towns and cities) should not be selling out to public companies in exchange for favors. It sets a bad precedent. Now towns are battling each other to see who can prostrate themselves the most in front of Google.
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