Saving the Net
Doc Searls wrote an interesting article in Linux Journal about where the phone companies want to take the net and how they want to charge for access. (If you have used internet services on your cell phone and paid the attendant charges you have glimpsed their vision of the future.) It is a long read, but worth the effort.
An interesting note, after this article was posted, Linux Journal suffered a denial of service attack which made it inaccessable for a day or so, though it is back up now.