susan crawford is a visiting professor at harvard law school, a contributor to bloomberg view and author of this essential book, "captive audience: the telecom industry and monopoly power in the new gilded age." david carr covers the busy intersection of media with business, government and culture, and he writes a popular weekly column, "media equation"" for "the new york times." welcome to you both. so help us sort out why the average citizen out there should care about this issue. >> right now, for most americans, they have no choice for all the information, data, entertainment coming through their house, other than their local cable monopoly. and here, we have a situation where that monopoly potentially can pick and choose winners and losers, decide what you see. how interesting, how interactive it is. how quickly it reaches you, and charge whatever it wants. so they're subject to neither oversight, nor competition. so the average american should care because it's a pocketbook issue. it's also an innovation issue. who's going to get to decide what new things come into our houses? >> p