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background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.699219); width: 540px; top: 806px; left: 115px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">attribution: None Specified</div></span><div class="dkimg-cap" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-size: smaller; ">Meet Susan Crawford and watch the video below to find out why the telecommunication companies would like her to go away</div></div>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."</div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/59236702?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" defang_webkitallowfullscreen="" defang_mozallowfullscreen="" defang_allowfullscreen="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; "></iframe></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><div class="article-body" style="margin-top: 15px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; "><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font: normal normal normal 13px/1.4 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; "><a href="http://vimeo.com/59236702" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(229, 114, 30); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair</a> from<a href="http://vimeo.com/user9013478" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; 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">Susan's background</a>:<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; "></p><blockquote style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; line-height: 1.4; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top-style: solid; position: static; z-index: auto; ">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.<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font: normal normal normal 13px/1.4 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; ">“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.</p></blockquote><a href="http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-who%E2%80%99s-widening-america%E2%80%99s-digital-divide/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(229, 114, 30); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">About the episode:</a><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; line-height: 1.4; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top-style: solid; position: static; z-index: auto; ">America has a wide digital divide — high-speed Internet access is available only to those who can afford it, at prices much higher and speeds much slower in the U.S. than they are around the world.<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font: normal normal normal 13px/1.4 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; ">But neither has to be the case, says 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. Crawford 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.</p></blockquote></div></div></span></body></html>