Monopoly? Don’t be silly, we don’t have those anymore!
Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 bn (via AFP)
Comcast has agreed a $45-billion stock deal to buy Time Warner Cable, a move that would merge the two biggest cable operators in the United States, US media reported. The boards of both companies have approved the deal and an announcement will be made…
It’s easier for the NSA to work with one company than it is with many. Now a word about the people who will permit this monopoly to stand…..our politicians. They keep telling us that what the people want is a “leader” (Messiah like Hillary) who will guide them out of the partisan wilderness (“existential crisis”). But what the people should want is to save themselves. (“Power to the People.”) No junkie can be saved by someone else. Although any junkie can save them self. If they want to badly enough. “War is Over. If you want it.”
I live in a monopoly cable area — Verizon has decided to only lay fiber to those areas with higher economic quintile demographics, so it is really not a true competitor of Cablevision, which is the cable company for my area.
There is nearly zero competition for wired broadband. AT&T claims it has high speed internet through its wireless, and Verizon is aping those claims for its wireless, but wireless is upper limited for speed.
We here in the US pay far higher for far less than most other developed, and many underdeveloped, nations!
Aren’t we lucky to live in a Corporatist state, with its monopolies and duopolies?
We’re Number One — especially in getting screwed by our rent demanding corporations.
“…Monopoly? Don’t be silly, we don’t have those anymore!…”
Darn right. We have debt slaves.
They’re more profitable and easier to control.
Geoffrey Manne, senior fellow at the technology think tank TechFreedom said competition concerns should be minimal because Comcast has already agreed to conditions in these areas for its NBCU acquisition.
“If anything, the merger will effectively provide consumers with more bargaining power to rein in overall programming costs and lower their bills,” Manne said.
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Sounds like TechFreedom is another Orwellian-named, Koch-Bros.-funded disinformation provider, and Geoffrey Manne is a sleazy compulsive liar.
How the fck does creating a bigger company give consumers more bargaining power?
And why is Manne being quoted when he’s so obviously, willfully, full of malicious shit?
TechFreedom think tank? Laughable. Having never heard of them, I already knew what their response would be as soon as I read the name.
Where do reporters dig up these shills? Do they write their stories, and then an editor goes to his rolodex to find a suitable sounding outfit for the obligatory chamber of commerce endorsement to be included in the story?
A “senior fellow” at a think tank? The girl at the supermarket gives me the senior discount on my coffee. Does that mean I can put “senior fellow at a confectionary think tank” (i.e. old farts kvetching at the donut counter) on my resume? Are they *all* senior fellows? I mean, their whole job is to give quotes at times like this, and who is going to seek the quote of a junior fellow, or an unmodified fellow? Might as well lay those folks off and just keep the senior fellows. How hard is it too rattle off these quotes? No analysis or facts or reasoning seems to be required. Did anyone ever hear of this senior fellow before he started work at this think tank? Did anyone ever hear of this think tank before this article. I’m thinking the reporter just looked them up in the yellow pages.