With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public … - Herbert Schiller

Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize it as only the latest technological vehicle to be turned, sooner or later, to corporate advantage - for advertising, marketing and general corporate aggrandizement.

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.