Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair

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Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, joins Bill to discuss how our government has allowed a few powerful media conglomerates to put profit ahead of the public interest — rigging the rules, raising prices, and stifling competition. As a result, Crawford says, all of us are at the mercy of the biggest business monopoly since Standard Oil in the first Gilded Age a hundred years ago.

“The rich are getting gouged, the poor are very often left out, and this means that we’re creating, yet again, two Americas, and deepening inequality through this communications inequality,” Crawford tells Bill.

http://billmoyers.com/segment/susan-crawford-on-why-u-s-internet-access-is-slow-costly-and-unfair/

Edited February 20, 2014 by Porterhouse

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Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, joins Bill to discuss how our government has allowed a few powerful media conglomerates to put profit ahead of the public interest — rigging the rules, raising prices, and stifling competition. As a result, Crawford says, all of us are at the mercy of the biggest business monopoly since Standard Oil in the first Gilded Age a hundred years ago.

“The rich are getting gouged, the poor are very often left out, and this means that we’re creating, yet again, two Americas, and deepening inequality through this communications inequality,” Crawford tells Bill.

http://billmoyers.com/segment/susan-crawford-on-why-u-s-internet-access-is-slow-costly-and-unfair/

Obama appointee going to fix the Internet! Great send her to the obama care people.

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As a comparison, I had internet in Korea for around $45 a month, and down speeds of over 1Gb (sustained, not advertised). Up was around 200Mb. 5-10 times what I now get for about $55 a month (15/1Mbps).

Yeah, we are definitely being robbed on our interwebs...

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As a comparison, I had internet in Korea for around $45 a month, and down speeds of over 1Gb (sustained, not advertised). Up was around 200Mb. 5-10 times what I now get for about $55 a month (15/1Mbps).

Yeah, we are definitely being robbed on our interwebs...

Korean airport.. Free internet everywhere.. ATL not so much

The Airport in Seoul SK is way better than the one in ATL