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Decry Mergers

By Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes.

February 24, 2000

The future of Internet users' choices in everything from the entertainment they consume to the political candidates and viewpoints they espouse could be in online double jeopardy because of the pending mergers between AT&T Corp. and MediaOne, and America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc., several participants warned in a Center for Media Education roundtable discussion today.

Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the participants not only warned Internet users about the basic loss of choice when a handful of media companies control the majority of broadband Internet services, but they also urged the federal government to realize that its general failure to regulate these services in the interests of letting market forces decide actually contributes to a more restrictive online society.

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