互联网最大的特点在于它的全球互联、双向交互。但是,对于发达国家和发展中国家来说,网上信息看似双向“交流”,事实上近乎单向“直流”;互联网表面上看是平等的,实际上隐含着不平等。道理很简单,在与西方国际资本的竞争中,发展中国家的互联网产业面临着三个严重的“不对称”: 第一,经济实力的不对称。就以全球最大的互联网供应商“美国在线”(America Online简称AOL)为例,2000年1月初,这个网络媒体巨人宣布以1650亿美元收购时代—华纳公司,即使一年来美国纳市大幅缩水,但到同年底美国联邦贸易委员会批准合并案时仍市值1110亿美 The biggest feature of the Internet lies in its global interconnection and two-way interaction. However, for both developed and developing countries, online information appears to be two-way “communication” and virtually unilateral “DC.” The Internet is ostensibly equal and implicitly inequitable. The reason is very simple. In the competition with western international capital, the Internet industry in developing countries is facing three serious “asymmetries”: First, the asymmetry of economic power. Take the example of America Online (AOL), the world’s largest Internet provider, for example. In early January 2000, the online media giant announced that it would spend Warner’s Time Inc., a $ 165 billion acquisition, even though the city of Nashville, However, by the same year the U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved the merger with a market capitalization of 111 billion U.S. dollars