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Astroturf book reviews and the high-speed Internet debate

Susan Crawford, who argues high costs are to blame to lack of high-speed Internet, is getting some very fishy-looking reviews on her latest book.

The debate about high speed Internet access and service grows more heated all the time. Susan Crawford, fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, argues big companies are over-charging and under-serving us, and that it’s up to the government to step in and regulate a better way. She’s even got a book on the topic, Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. The reviews of that book on Amazon.com offered a new and strange chapter in the debate this week.

Crawford joins Marketplace Tech host Ben Johonson to discuss. Click on the audio player above to hear more.

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