The Economics of Access to the Internet are a Barrier to Democracy

Abstract: This 9 page report discusses the open structure and availability of the Internet and how it creates a place where people can more participate fully in democracy. However, the cost of access to the Internet presents a number of problems in the determination of who and who cannot access this avenue for free speech and democracy. The democracy offered via the Internet and the ability to participate in the democratic processes it offers is clearly far more convenient for the middle class and wealthy as compared to the lower middle class or the poor. The ostensibly bias-less world of cyberspace is an egalitarian construct . . . for those that can pay the price of admission. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

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