Meet Susan Crawford and watch the video below to find out why the telecommunication companies would like her to go away

Meet Susan Crawford and watch the video below to find out why the telecommunication companies would like her to go away

If you think your monthly internet service is too costly, too slow and/or you don't have an affordable alternative, you are not alone. The sad truth is, while other countries forge ahead with high speed, affordable internet access, our politicians have helped media conglomerates create the "biggest business monopoly since Standard Oil in the first Gilded Age a hundred years ago."

Bill Moyers talks with Susan Crawford on Moyers & Company's "Who's Widening America's Digital Divide?"

Susan's background:



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.