Susan Crawford Calls for Expansion of Fiber Networks
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Tech policy expert Susan Crawford joined the non-profit think tank Four Freedoms Center of the Roosevelt Institute today and called for the expansion of fiber networks in America. For her, looming monopolies are a threat to Internet equality and the expansion of faster Internet connections, specifically fiber, which she called “the global standard,” is the future.
The fight against the digital divide is the “21st century version of electrification,” Crawford wrote on her first post for the _Next New Deal_, the blog of the Roosevelt Institute. “Expanding high-speeding Internet access to all Americans is as essential now as the Rural Electrification Act was in the 1930s.”
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