Mainstream Media Creating an Internet Divide Through Monopolization

The news media portrays the Internet as a playground for criminals, and warns people on a regular basis as to why they shouldn't be doing business or even communicating online. But take a closer look, the media is all too happy to plug their websites, online stores and online dating communities, without bias. The media creates fear and holds back the prosperity of small and medium online businesses so they can gain control over the Flagship Internet with domination. It is the medias effort to monopolize the Internet, the great divide.

The dot com bubble was a timing issue, and according to Wikipedia, the dot-com bubble was a 'rapid growth of Internet based business from 1995 to 2001'. Private equity was the driving force of the funding for the Internet businesses. Wikipedia discusses the 'exuberant environment, soaring stocks, free spending, and then 'thinning the herd and the aftermath.' The published information is hook, line and sinker to anyone considering a small or medium size business online, because the fear of loosing money. In today's economic woes the timing is perfect for running a business online and business online is an excellent way to stay in tact in the face the rising prices of gas and food. Big business wants the Internet divide to itself, compare eBay today and compare it to it's humble beginnings in 1994 when the products being sold were a broken laser pointer to Industrial surplus in 2005.

The fees today charged by eBay have pushed the little business man and the unknown artists to the curb, while eBay caters to the rich and famous.

Information Weekly reports that Internet crime reached an 'all time high in 2007, with a loss of $239 Million.' That type of reporting creates fear.

Techies know that these reports are puffed up, because of the way that the statistics are gathered, the statistics multiplied by search engines and spiders when they are deployed to constantly track websites causing the statistics to be inaccurate.