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The Coming Internet Monopolies

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-copper-wire-to-rule-them-all dept.

scrm writes "'The Federal Communications Commission is quietly handing over control of the broadband Internet to a handful of massive corporations according to this Salon article." Very important stuff; Slashdot has covered this before, but this is a great article which sums up everything that has gone on over the past few years.

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  1. No problem?! by Smallest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When TimeWarnerAOL (or Disney or whoever else ends up as the big players) decides you shouldn't be seeing this or that website, or sending this or that data down the wire, you'll care.

    Remember, these are the same companies who bought the DMCA - they do not have your interests in mind.

    -c

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