info mafia

From an Observer article on Ted Talks, "Is 'Facebookistan' the most powerful country on Earth? Rebecca MacKinnon of the international bloggers' network Global Voices Online claims it is starting to act like one. Private companies are starting to behave like governments. They're applying censorship or responding to requests from regimes and creating what she calls "a new layer of private sovereignty". In the old days, there were nation states; in the new world order, there are supra-national corporations exercising power without restraint." Watching the slimy Parliamentary phone hacking hearings, News Corp is the super duper, super evil, superpower bar none. Father/Son Murdoch make the info mafia of fb et al look benign.