It may be the biggest among home users, but he Internet is much bigger than home users. In fact, as much as 90 percent of the use of the Internet is for commerce by big business. This is the dominant force on the Internet. Businesses are using the Internet for everything from trying together company work sites to worker training to production. Company to-company business is now dominated by the Internet.
Email is now the primary form of business communication.
Banking and the stock market are all completely tied into the Internet. Warner control access to the Internet. They require that the Internet and access to it remain open, just as the roads and waterways must be open and accessible to all businesses. If they are selling on the Internet, they don't want to pay an AOL-Time Warner tax for every transaction. They will require open and free access to their company Web sites and the free flow of email.