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Susan Crawford on Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Susan Crawford on Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

Susan Crawford talks at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center about her book Captive Audience. She argues that deregulation and consolidation left a few telecom companies in control of American internet access, so people pay too much for slow service.

Recommended in broadband and net neutrality threads as an overview of the US telecom monopoly problem.

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