By Bret Swanson, Contributor In the latter half of the 19th century the railroads oppressed the American people. The railroads were so domineering that the U.S. led the way in the Second Industrial Revolution and its economy boomed. This, essentially, is how Susan Crawford opens her new book Captive Audience, a critique of today’s U.S. communications market, which she thinks resembles the Gilded Age railroads.
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