Google Chairman Eric Schmidt made all the right noises in India, sending a message out to policymakers in particular that India needs a free Internet, and especially the fact that "you need entrepreneurs to take risks, not go to jail." Schmidt also had suggestions on how to grow broadband, on recent copyright related rulings in Google's battle with news organizations, android versus chrome, Google Reader, the change in Google's strategy after Larry Page took over as CEO from Schmidt, North Korea, among other things. An overview: On India & What It Needs: Many of the next five billion on the Internet will come from India. Surely there will be many more languages. We need changes in regulatory structure, and lowering of cost of devices. The sum of all of that, this place is going to be rocking. As the Internet has emerged in many countries, there are quite a few countries with no law for the Internet, and those are free and open. There are other governments that try and censor the Internet. India is a country with a strong system for freedom of expression, and there are some clarification needed (in the law). You want entrepreneurs to take risks, and not go to jail. Not everyone who is going to join the Internet will be a perfect citizen, and it's important that all the intermediaries have the ability to take that information down. On growing Broadband: There's no huge debate in the industry on the right path. Take fiber…
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