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<p>In late June, the search giant’s chief, Eric Schmidt, along with three other Google executives, met with Cuban authorities and young dissidents “to promote the virtues of a free and open Internet.”</p>
<p>“In a decade, the world will have about 5,000 million people connected to the network and (…) the greatest increase in internet consumer will be in societies that now are severely censored”, said Schmidt in a March 11 editorial column published by the NY Times.</p>