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Susan Crawford: Techies Ignore Broadband Policy at their Peril
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Excellent lecture.
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The Broadband Market is Broken: Don't Fall for Lobbyist Lies
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Susan Crawford's Captive Audience Book Reviewed
I quickly read the just-released Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, and came away quite excited by Susan Crawford's new book.
Susan Crawford has been supportive of community owned networks and a loud voice against the poor policies that have allowed a few massive cable and telephone c