WETA Moyers Company February 10, 2013
Their citizens faster and cheaper access than we do. The faster highspeed access comes through fiber optic lines that transmit data in bursts of laser light, but many of us are still hooked up to broadband connections that squeeze Digital Information through copper wire. Were stuck with this oldfashioned technology because, as Susan Crawford explains, our government has allowed a few giant conglomerates to rig the rules, raise prices, and stifle competition. Just Like Standard Oil in the first gilded age a century ago. In those days, it was muckrakers like ida tarbell and Lincoln Steffens ratt...