The fierce race to control the future American media market is getting intense and fierce day by day.  Well-known corporations that are willing and able to destroy and wipe out smaller companies are now doing their best and try to swallow up various telecommunication establishments, in order to completely dominate the market, which results into certain, not always positive, consequences.

The Internet, being one of the main branches of telecommunication in the contemporary world, is now under attack of the corporations in question.  Small companies that offer cheap, but fast Internet, are dangerous, and create obstacles to their powerful rivals. Consequently, the corporations buy those firms over, and, therefore, grant themselves the ability to impose whatever rules and policies they want, as far as they have no competitors.

“…The Internet celebrated the rate of social change around the globe, and introduced a new political battleground over a range of issues…” (Bagdikian, 59) Indeed, the invention of the Internet has created many problems and disputes, and is now a matter of business, benefits, and costs, which is, undoubtedly, a bad guarantee of the quality and common sense.

Questions:

1) Why are not people living on the outskirts of the city centers provided with proper Internet connection? Is the corporation’s profit the only reason?

2) Microsoft and other computer related firms offer various techniques and programs to fight with spam.  Do they actually help much?

3) “The Ownership of Words the Internet has added to the complexities of copyright.” (Bagdikian, 64)  Is this restriction really necessary?