Detrimental to Global Democracy (Score 1)

The tentacles of the global commercial conglomerates are at it again...the aim is to continue to define what we have the right to observe...the ethics of seeing...especially as it pertains to Others. The Internet is undoubtedly a democratizing technology and our current hope for providing a platform for a credible system of journalism. With the emergence of the blogosphere and self reporters, particularly in Arab world and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Internet and digital technologies has been critical for eroding the control of the lenses by which we see Others and interact with them. The traditional mass media is owned by large corporations and this appears to me to be the development of monopolistic arrangements making it easier to charge for content online and once again take control over what we can and should know.