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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.

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Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Topic
us broadband monopolies
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2013–2014

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • A talk on the book in question (as well as audio) can be found here: [LINK] and if you prefer YouTube, here: [VIDEO] It's a pretty good overview of the American broadband infrastructure problem.

    cameron913 on Hacker News · 2013-07
    In Telco Astroturfing Tries To Bring Down Reviews Of Susan Crawford's Book

  • Because it's considered "vertical integration" and therefore not subject to anti-trust laws. Comcast merging with Time Warner would be considered horizontal; Comcast merging with NBCU was considered vertical and therefore allowed to go forward in January 2011. I'm currently reading Susan Crawford's book Captive Audience, …

    graedus on Hacker News · 2014-01
    In Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s anti-blocking rules

  • That's interesting (didn't know about the whole city coverage). The general telecom issue is also gone over well in this talk called captive audience [ [VIDEO] ]. It goes over the telecom industry, how it's not competitive and the current day incentives/problems. While the underlying …

    fossuser on Hacker News · 2014-02
    In Why is broadband more expensive in the US?

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