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Apparently the media conglomerates of the telephone and cable empires are trying to constrict the interet services to American users. A Bill passed in August of 2005 to charge different fees for different users of the internet; companies we all use online would have to pay doubly the fees they already have to pay the infrastructure companies. Likewise, they have failed to restructure this infrastructure to fiber optic cables, as had been agreed with the state in forms of tax breaks and rate hikes which we have all been paying. I saw all this on the Bill Moyers show on PBS tonight.

Ironically I had seen Citizen Kane just today. Allegories which rang to me was that of the robber barons like Rockerfeller or the extortionism of Tony Soprano. In any case, the authors, lobbyists, and senators interviewed provided an interesting sight of the internet battle; the battle of neutrality or of equal carrier. Whether Citizen Kane or Tony Soprano, it seems that the flight of media is toward the internet, as most know already. But it is this flight where the constriction of values of diversity and fairness are in possibility.