Z:gnu-www-ja-guardian-article--4d72a3-Our society is becoming more d/en

Our society is becoming more dependent on information technology. At the same time, centralised control over and ownership of the information technology field is increasing, and mega-corporations with law-given dominion over our computers could take away our freedoms and democracy. With an effective monopoly on modern software, the largest grabbers of the &ldquo;land&rdquo; will have control over what we can ask our computers to do, and control over production and distribution of information on the net, through monopolies that the EU plans to give them.