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Are we talking about Technology or Politics? As far as technology goes, it's not actually far from a 'highly-developed' country, right? Gigabit in some places (and growing), really decent broadband in others. Free wifi is ubiquitous, cellular technology is also really decent in places like the frontier states - Eastern Oregon, Montana, etc. Not to mention lots of actual technical hardware and software development happens in the US like Loon[1] and Starlink[2]. On the software side stuff like HTTP/2[3], AMP(for better or worse)[4], Chrome, Firefox, etc. originated in the US, didn't it? I'd argue the US is the most 'highly-developed' country for Internet technology, but I'm biased since I am from the US.

If you're just complaining about politics, I won't argue.

1: https://x.company/projects/loon/ 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_(satellite_constellat... 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2 4: https://developers.google.com/amp