Sources estimate that there are 1.5 billion unique users of the Internet. While that is a lot of users, there are almost 5.5 billion that do not have access to the Internet at all. Not quite the global village we believe it is. Nor can we claim that the Internet is fundamentally democratic. I agree with the idea of the Internet becoming more of corporate marketplace than a global public forum. There are brands/products/services everywhere you look. I do not know what else to say about this. I will add more later if I think of anything worth saying.
Thank you for this -- said much more eloquently than I was able to articulate in class last week.
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