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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2729544" data-attributes="member: 63">I've recently started trying to become more familiar with the issues of the world I live in. I hop around various websites, blogs, news pages, and private rant forums to find out what people are concerned about. And I'm discovering that there's a lot more to the world than I was aware. I wish I had time to devote to everything that interests me.Today, I read Slashdot (slashdot.org) and found an interesting essay - <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8673" target="_blank">http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8673</a> - about internet usage, and how companies that own the actual communications lines that allow for the internet to work at all are trying to get more control over what information gets transfered online.Right now, reading this essay (and it's rather long), I get a sense of desperation from the writer, but I don't quite get his point. What's he so concerned about? How is the situation going to be any different from what it is now. I've read a third of the way through, and while he makes it sound terrifying, I don't really understand why it's so bad.Anyone care to help me out? What are the issues of the digital world, freedom of communication, and so on? Are we all going to have to start jacking in with wireless Shadowrun headchips?</blockquote>