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Susan Crawford
Personal blog · scrawford.net/blogpoliticseconomics
Susan Crawford's personal blog at scrawford.net covers politics and economics. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The one comment is in a Google Fiber thread and does not cite the blog. It argues that companies that curate content, such as Google, Comcast and Facebook, should not also control infrastructure.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Susan Crawford is a professor at Harvard Law School and an expert in tech, public policy, and how they affect our lives.
What Hacker News says?
This move might be good for Google, but I find it somewhat alarming as a consumer. Those who control or curate content (Google, NBC/Comcast, Facebook) should not control infrastructure. This was less of a concern when Google was acting as a conduit of information, but as Google moves to treat personal (if aggregate) data as property and profits from user-generated data like YouTube or Google+, the lines become signi…
Comment linking /blog/comcastnbcu-will-raise-costs-for-consumers/1414/
on “Google Fiber”Submitted Google fiber – “experiencing awesome things together” as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Law Professor Reads FCC Conditions on Comcast Merger So You Don't Have To as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted The militarization of the Internet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the Comcast/NBCU merger matters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad Timing: Comcast, Netflix, NN, Cable Modems and NBCU as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Killing the Copper and Income Inequality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Law prof: What violent video game decision means for net neutrality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leadership (on the Google/VZN net neutrality agreement) as a story · 1 points
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