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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
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this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2026
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No that isn’t why.
There is no correlation between population density and broadband speed in the west.
Not relevant to the point but that is a terribly color coded graph, there are multiple indistinguishable pairs
Edit: worse than that, how do you tell New Zealand, Germany, and the Netherlands apart? Norway, Spain, Iceland?
Netherlands has highest population density and New Zealand the lowest of those three.
I’ll talk to my researcher.
Tbh looking at it now it's not quite as bad as it initially looked, iirc I had like just woken up or smthn lol
But still
Also throw Switzerland onto this plot and suddenly there’s a massive correlation