The media reform group Free Press highlighted media and telecom corporations caught censoring web or cellphone traffic a few years ago.
Inner City Press,
a monitor of Wall Street and the United Nations, was temporarily delisted from Google News. The de-listing happened soon after Matt Lee
of Inner City Press challenged Google over its commitment to free expression.
In
2007, consumer rights groups mobilized to tell the Federal
Communications Commission: "No More Media Consolidation." CommonCause
was blocked from placing an ad on My Space against conglomerated media.
Rupert Murdoch had bought My Space in 2005 (and later sold it at a huge
loss, after Facebook eclipsed it). The banned ad featured a photo of Murdoch and the caption: "This is the face of Big Media." Was it My Space or Murdoch's space?
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