The End of Digital Democracy

Stuart Park writes: "According to this article, this year could be very important for media ownership and internet access with a lot of pressure on the FCC and the U.S. Government to remove restrictions thus allowing a small number of large corporations to control everything. Help stop it happening via this link."

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Connectivity becoming linked to content

[Kirruth]

This is a very important issue (not that you'd know it from the number of responses so far!). What this is really about is letting the people who provide the connectivity for broadband connections (the cable companies and telcos) also control the content (ISP services and portals).

What this means is that they can control the portal you use, the sites you might look at. If they see you trading MP3's they can shut you down. It's about turning the open internet into a giant corporate intranet.

And you won't be able to go to someone else, because in your town there might not be someone else.

The openNet coalition goes into more details. Worth getting informed about.