found this over on scitechdaily.com
The Death Of The Internet How Industry Intends To Kill The 'Net As We Know It Jeff Chester is executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy <http://www.democraticmedia.org/>.
The Internet’s promise as a new medium -- where text, audio, video and data can be freely exchanged -- is under attack by the corporations that control the public’s access to the 'Net, as they see opportunities to monitor and charge for the content people seek and send. The industry’s vision is the online equivalent of seizing the taxpayer-owned airways, as radio and television conglomerates did over the course of the 20th century.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6600
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