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Former Special Assistant to President Obama Talks about Telecom Policy at NYU

Posted on | November 29, 2010 | No Comments

Susan Crawford, a former Special Assistant to President Obama for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy gave a lecture today about the state of telecommunications policy in the United States. Currently she is a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City and a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. As part of the Evan Korth’s Computers and Society lecture series at NYU, Dr. Crawford addressed a crowd of about 60 people on challenges posed by the Comcast-NBC Universal merger and opposition to the Net Neutrality rules by lobbyists.
Susan Crawford, a former Special Assistant to President Obama for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
What did I take away from the talk? Regulation matters. Deregulation matters. In other words, it matters what stance the government takes on telecommunications issues. For instance, take a look at your cable television bill. That is a result of deregulation.

This was tweeted today Dec 1: FCC’s Chairman Genachowski’s remarks on preserving Internet freedom and openness, streaming at 10:30 a.m. ET at http://fcc.gov/live

Apparently his talk is creating quite a controversy.

Prepared Remarks of
Chairman Julius Genachowski
Washington DC
December 1, 2010

I don’t yet have the video for the talk so I’m going to embed a recent talk by Susan Crawford on Rethinking Broadband at the Personal Democracy Forum 2010.

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Anthony J. Pennings, PhD has been on the NYU faculty since 2001 teaching digital media, information systems management, and global communications.

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