As described in Susan Crawford's book "Captive Audience", the failure to regulate the internet as a common carrier has drastically reduced internet speed, capacity, and quality and has led to "expensive, second-rate, carefully curated wired services for the rich, provided by Comcast and Time Warner; [and] expensive, third-rate, carefully curated wireless services (or no services at all) for those who cannot afford a wire". Meanwhile, countries like Korea, Japan, the Netherlands, and Hong Kong are providing reasonably priced one gigabit symmetric fiber to the home for most citizens. American cannot afford to fall behind in basic infrastructure like this!



