Week 1 - Muddiest Points

If, as the OCLC report indicates, individuals are becoming more self-sufficient in their information seeking strategies while at the same time adopting methods of information retrieval that focus on reducing information into easily retrievable (if decontextualized) fragments (think smart phones), is it possible that we've invested too much power in the content providers to control access? Doesn't the potential exist for greater censorship of information according to the ends of the content providers?