Big Brother is everywhere

For indie media class, i recently read a few articles from FOXNews, Common Dreams, NYTimes, and a few other media outlets regarding how censorship and control of media content is increasing. In fact, it is not only the government that is controlling what we can read and view, but it is also the big corporations like Google and Yahoo who have growing power over what can be searched online. Truthfully, I was never aware of the fact that Google, Myspace, Yahoo, and many others would care or even think of doing such a thing as controlling content on search engines. I honestly thought that there main interest was in obtaining more ads and that their political interests were limited. However, I guess my naivete has obviously been revealed more clearly through my discoveries in these readings. In a country that we hail a democracy, do we really live democratically and freely? Are we really able to exercise our 1st amendment rights? So now big corporations --search engines like Google and Yahoo are following suit of taking political interest in order to seize greater power. There has to be a stop to this. Why should the government and especially corporations take away information that we should know about? This creates a society that lives in a blindfold, with their eyes shut and even their ears muffled from the truth --by today's broadcasters in major corporate media--FoxNews, CNN, we can go on.