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Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

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Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution. With some of the fastest speeds and lowest prices in the world for high-speed Internet access, the nation was poised to be the global leader in the new knowledge-based economy. Today that global competitive advantage has all but vanished because of a series of government decisions and resulting monopolies that have allowed dozens of countries, including Japan and South Korea, to pass us in both speed and price…

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Why US Internet Access is Slow and Expensive. “how the U.S. government has allowed a few powerful media conglomerates to put profit ahead of the public interest — rigging the rules, raising prices, and stifling competition”(r/technology)

If you look at this woman’s book reviews on amazon, there is a mysterious spike of 1 star reviews. For the most part, these 1 star reviews are very detailed, with bullet points, trying to debunk the material in the book. A hatchet job by paid consultants, perhaps?

www.amazon.com/Captive-Audience-Telecom-Industry-M…

Since looking at this yesterday, I note that a new set of highly detailed 2 star reviews have been added. I guess that spike of 1 star reviews was too weird for whoever is orchestrating the smear campaign against her book.

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Hardcover

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ABIS_BOOK

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Susan Crawford

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1St Edition

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Yale University Press

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Why US Internet Access is Slow and Expensive. “how the U.S. government has allowed a few powerful media conglomerates to put profit ahead of the public interest — rigging the rules, raising prices,

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