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To: ToySoldier who wrote (29903)	1/13/2000 8:23:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42771

On mergers and monopolies Under the capitalist system, all companies strive to control the market they are in. To put it bluntly, all corporations try to become monopolies. AOL is nothing more than a vehicle for content --- it is not a technology. Since it controls its content to the extent possible (as in programming on TV) then it is a natural match for Time Warner which at its height, controlled how people thought about the various political events in the world (under Luce). All I see here is another attempt to control the pipe and the content that comes down that pipe to the public. Having a media system that fails to inform people --- just look at the drivel on the evening news, and having tried for more than a century the "publisher controls content" style of mass information, it is natural for these monopolies to want to control the internet and the content on the internet. Even Jackass Jill the webmistress tried to do that here. The only question in my mind is whether this will succeed or fail. Am I really going to be in charge of what content I view on the internet or will the Borg eventually tell me what to think here too?