Marc Rotenberg (EPIC) scrive al NY Times, che invita
i lettori a commentare.

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Editors’ Note: We invite readers to respond briefly by Thursday for the Sunday Dialogue. We plan to publish responses and a rejoinder in the Sunday Review. Email: letters@nytimes.com

To the Editor:

Your recent article about the reluctance of consumers to turn away from the Internet titans suggests that most users are largely satisfied with the current choices (“Principles Are No Match for Europe’s Love of U.S. Web Titans,” Business Day, July 7). A better reading could be that they have no real choices. A small group of companies today controls much of the online world.

Internet companies have grown in part because of the same network effects — the benefits that arise with many participants in the same communications environment — that enabled the growth of the Internet.

Large Internet companies have also benefited from powerful economic incentives, a lax regulatory environment, rapid technological changes and business practices that are designed to deprive users of meaningful choices. The practical consequence is increasing consolidation of Internet-based services and little real choice for consumers.

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