Is Google the New "Media Monopoly"?

Microsoft's hastily renewed courtship with Yahoo --this time centered on a merger of the companies' search advertising businesses -- in order to compete more effectively with search engine leader Google raises issues not just of market competitiveness but of the shape of the new media landscape. In particular, might new media become as concentrated as the conglomerates and oligopolies that characterize much of traditional media? And if so, would new media ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
3.9
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The article is conjectural, but raises significant questions of internet media consolidation leading to censorship, limitation of diversity and free speech. In advocating anti-trust legislation, it fails to note that present anti-trust legislation has not been enforced by recent administrations from Reagan forward; and the need is not only for laws but for administrations that respect and enforce the laws.

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