The Antitrust Issue Is Extremely Complicated

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I want to get to the broader things that you discuss in the book, but i have one final question. And it seems like part of the reason that people are not having sufficient access to the internet and what not is because there's not enough competition. So could you discuss that a little bit? Ye her, you're saying, and the antitrust issue is extremely complicated. I won't pretend to be an expert, but i will say that we get to this realm of monopoly power through wide, open competition.

Paris Marx is joined by Dan Greene to discuss how the Clinton administration reframed poverty through the lens of the internet and how that transformed the missions of key institutions like libraries and schools.

Dan Greene is an assistant professor at University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. He is the author of “The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope.” Follow Dan on Twitter at @Green_DM.

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