Susan Crawford on US Telecom Consolidation and Internet Access
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society · Talk · 1 h 5 min · 2012 · YouTube title: Susan Crawford on Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age
Why it's here
Recommended in broadband and net neutrality threads as an overview of the US telecom monopoly problem.
What it covers
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.