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In monopolies, the company controls a product in its entirety. There are both good sides and bad sides to a monopoly. Until recently there was a monopoly on waste disposal in North West Arkansas. Waste Management was in sole control of the pick up of dumpsters and personal trash in our area. Now the local government has opened that monopoly up to free enterprise, so that now the public has the right to choose whom they wish to regulate their trash disposal and can decide on what they want based on service, cost or whatever other reasons that they choose the company they wish. The same has been seen with Microsoft when they where forced to open up and split there monopoly so that things could be more affordable and people had more choices in what they could use for there computer systems.

Media is a free enterprise where anyone can have access to the free flow of information that is available to them. We have come to rely on media in order obtain the bulk of our information to what is going on around us and in our communities as well as abroad. The problem with media although it has been open to a free monopoly is that we are still restricted by government regulations and to what is seen and what can not be seen. I have come to believe with the repeated news cast on war that the government is regulation what we are allowed to see and what we are not allowed to see, thereby we are given a truth that they want us to believe.

However, with the internet we are able to express new freely through ways of internet groups, chat rooms, and new forms of broadcasting on the internet that are not regulated by government regulations. In the future I believe that the freedom we have on the internet will be regulated as well. With mergers and new technologies comes the fear of loss of wealth, many search engines and instant messaging is free but in time that may be at cost as we have come to rely on them for information, people will learn how to make money from the things we have come to depend upon in our daily lives.