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Susan Crawford discusses how deregulation and consolidation created a communications crisis and broadband monopolies in the United States.
In the Internet era, a very few companies control our information destiny. In this talk, and in her new book "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age," Susan Crawford—a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation policy—demonstrates how deregulatory changes in policy have created a communications crisis in America. The consequences: Tens of millions of Americans are being left behind, people pay too much for too little Internet access, and speeds are slow. But everyday people can change this story - and what happens in the year ahead could change the game for good. More info on this even here: cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2012/12/crawford The book can be found here: amazon.com/Captive-Audience-Telecom-Industry-Monopoly/dp/030…What people say. Recommended as a comprehensive overview of the American broadband infrastructure problem and telecom industry competition issues.
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