Freedom of the press belongs to those who make it through the filtering. When I asked the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Mike Godwin what would guarantee freedom on the Internet he said, "Market forces." As demonstrated by the controversy over "peering" (UUNET ceasing to exchange Internet traffic freely with any but the largest Internet Service Providers) and the formation of IOPS.ORG (a move by nine of these large ISPs to form their own Internet policy body, outside of public-interest frameworks such as the Internet Engineering Task Force), "market forces" can be translated as "the collusion of large companies."