Liveinjapan  +  603180 Wed, 03 Dec 08 09:02 AM As more and more speech migrates online, to blogs and social-networking sites and the like, the ultimate power to decide who has an opportunity to be heard, and what we may say, lies increasingly with Internet service providers, search engines and other Internet companies like Google, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook and even eBay. I think the bold part is inserted in the sentence as additional information, but I don't understand how it works. Could you please help me? Thanks Liveinjapan Joined on Sun, Feb 4 2007 Osaka, Japan Senior Member 2,280 Please feel free to correct any words I wrote.LiJ

	CalifJim  +  603197 Wed, 03 Dec 08 09:15 AM I'm not completely sure what you need here, but the sentence can be rephrased thus: the ultimate power to decide  (two things): 1) who has an opportunity to be heard and 2)  what we are permitted to say lies ... with ... In other words, these companies will be able to decide which people will have access to the internet and which messages those people will be permitted to send through the internet.  CJ  CalifJim Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member 22,415 "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche