The relentless march of big companies (who would like to call themselves people now) over muchy of the internet continues. Sample these two news items: Item #1: Twitter's new 140 characters+ tweets can be huge, with pictures and videos, but only for Twitter's big corporate partners.The net is a big spam machine for those with money - companies and politicians alike. Item#2: ICANN's auction of customized top-level domain names, making $350 million in the process. Soon you will be getting sale offers of .indians domain names, otherwise you won't be an Indian, see?

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