Topeka, Kansas mayor Bill Bunten has announced today that the city will temporarily be renamed Google, in an effort to get the search giant to bring their proposed 1000Mbit free Internet to the city, via the "Fiber for Communities" program.
"It's just fun. We're having a good time of it," says Bunten. "There's a lot of good things that are going on in our city."
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If you are familiar with the Cyber Security Act, that passed the House in February, the bill is going to put in place a internet grid that is controlled by the government and everyone will have to switch to the government's internet. This will pretty much destroy all the privacy that we have on the net, and violate our constitutional rights. Google's pilot broadband project, is suspected to be in cooperation with the government to set up and test the "government internet."
Originally posted by amf0802: I'd change my name to Google if they guaranteed me that I would be given 1 gig internet connection.
As long as it's 1GB symmetrical, without bandwidth throttles or caps, and guaranteed to be free from prosecution by the RIAA, MPAA, etc. I'd do it too. ;)
I would rather my city was known as a center of commerce and technology than, "A good place to grow potatoes". Don't get me wrong, I love potatoes...but you can grow them almost anywhere.
If my city was not over the population limit, I would push to get the name permanently changed to Google in the hopes of that free internet.
Originally posted by themind: Ignorance is bliss. Isn't that right Josipher?
lol if by that you refer to the fact that i dont think google is trying to take over the world then yes :)
btw here the highest net speed we hav is 30MB so like my predecessors i would definitely change my name to google if they offered to give me 1000MB net speed :)
