Access is another biggie — to what extent is it in the country’s interest to be sure most people get fast Internet. Susan Crawford, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute who focuses on internet access and worked for a time for the Obama Administration, says, “It’s being provided by a few giant companies that are almost laughably profitable, and the cable industry in particular faces no competition and they are actively constraining demand through usage based pricing and data caps so they don’t have to expand their services. Meanwhile, a third of Americans don’t sign up for Internet access because it’s too expensive and the country as a whole isn’t making the upgrade to fiber that many other countries are. This is a huge issue for the country and it’s going to confront this next administration.”

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