Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Both statements are true and describe the same tension over centralised power on the Internet.

The first holds that centralised control of the signs and symbols of mediated communication may narrow the plurality of opinions online, which is sound because gatekeeping by a few can shrink the range of voices.

The second holds that the global corporate owners of Internet companies aim only at profit, not at sustaining a pluriverse, and this too fairly describes their commercial logic.

Together they warn that concentration of ownership can crowd out diversity of expression.

The pluriverse means a world of many coexisting worldviews rather than one dominant order.

Guarding such plurality is a recurring concern in media studies.