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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

Elizabeth Kolbert at The Newyorker writes about the implications that technology monopolies have for culture by asking, who owns the Internet? [newyorker.com]. Three decades ago, few used the Internet for much of anything and the web wasn't even around. Today, nearly everybody uses the web, and to a lesser extent, other parts of the Internet for just about everything. However, despite massive growth, the Web has narrowed very much: "Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales."

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