Why Monopolistic Telecoms Threaten Internet Equality

It was only a couple of days after Barack Obama was elected president when Susan Crawford's phone rang in the middle of the night. "We want you to come work with us," said a member of the transition team. Susan couldn't believe it.

Crawford, 49, a calm, charming, blue-eyed woman with short and curly hazel hair, recalls that moment vividly. "I started jumping up and down," she says. She was excited by the chance to help the candidate she voted for, the man she watched through tears while he spoke at Grant Park in Chicago. "I had this strain of earnestness in me 'Oh! I get to help! I get to help!'"

For this Yale-educated professor of law, leading the Federal Communications Commission (F…
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