Monopolies Choke the Web

by Sarah Ferguson (rtn [at] reclaimthe.net)

Sat, Apr 7, 2001 3:43PM

Adding new domain extensions to the net is a matter of a simple "copy and paste" of some lines of text. It has become however an international political issue that media activist Paul Garrin has spent the past 5 years trying to resolve to preserve the net from total control by corporate giants.

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Paul Garrin Says
Monopolies Choke the Web.
Now Congress Is Starting to Listen.

Casting a Wider Net
by Sarah Ferguson

From the Village Voice
http://villagevoice.com/issues/0114/ferguson.shtml
Media activist Paul Garrin is obsessed with borders. Step into his East 4th Street loft and you\'re met by eight large TV monitors mounted in a wall of thick corrugated steel, and four video cameras that hop and pivot wildly as they track your every move. The setup\'s from an art installation Garrin devised called Border Patrol. When the screens are working, the cameras project a red target on your image