The web's new walls

Trond's Opening Standard - In a groundbreaking move, The Economist has understood the logic of the Internet just as its demise is near. In its leader on 4 September 2010 they write this about the web's new walls:

It's open standards made such interconnections cheap and easy...but now...three sets of walls are being built...national firewalls...walled gardens by...Facebook, Google...and Apple...and network operators [favoring] those websites prepared to pay up