[Advisors] UPDATE: NET NEUTRALITY AND MORE
Michael Gillespie
michaelg at gray.mb.ca
Mon, 20 May 2013 09:21:40 -0500
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If you were going to look for ground zero in the fight against a rapidly con=
solidating telecom and cable industry, you might end up on the fifth floor o=
f the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.
Susan Crawford, a professor at the school, has written a book, =E2=80=9CCapt=
ive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age,=
=E2=80=9D that offers a calm but chilling state-of-play on the information a=
ge in the United States. She is on a permanent campaign, speaking at schools=
, conferences and companies =E2=80=94 she was at Google last week =E2=80=94 a=
nd in front of Congress, asserting that the status quo has been great for pr=
oviders but an expensive mess for everyone else.
Ms. Crawford argues that the airwaves, the cable systems and even access to t=
he Internet itself have been overtaken by monopolists who resist innovation a=
nd chronically overcharge consumers.=20
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/business/media/telecoms-big-players-hold-b=
ack-the-future.html?nl=3Dtodaysheadlines&emc=3Dedit_th_20130520&_r=3D0=
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utf-8"></head><body dir=3D"auto"><p><span style=3D"-webkit-text-size-adjust:=
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you were going to look f=
or ground zero in the fight against a rapidly consolidating telecom and cabl=
e industry, you might end up on the fifth floor of the Benjamin N. Cardozo S=
chool of Law in New York.</span></p><p><span style=3D"-webkit-text-size-adju=
st: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Susan Crawford, a profe=
ssor at the school, has written a book, =E2=80=9CCaptive Audience: The Telec=
om Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age,=E2=80=9D that offers a=
calm but chilling state-of-play on the information age in the United States=
. She is on a permanent campaign, speaking at schools, conferences and compa=
nies =E2=80=94 she was at Google last week =E2=80=94 and in front of Congres=
s, asserting that the status quo has been great for providers but an expensi=
ve mess for everyone else.</span></p><p><span style=3D"-webkit-text-size-adj=
ust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ms. Crawford argues th=
at the airwaves, the cable systems and even access to the Internet itself ha=
ve been overtaken by monopolists who resist innovation and chronically overc=
harge consumers. <br></span></p><p><a href=3D"http://www.nytimes.com/20=
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