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>It’s a tough pill to swallow but YOU are the problem. Don't blame the victim. I'm really unhappy that many of these media mergers were allowed to go through b
by javajosh 4y ago
>It’s a tough pill to swallow but YOU are the problem.
Don't blame the victim. I'm really unhappy that many of these media mergers were allowed to go through by the USG. This was an executive branch failure to enforce existing anti-trust laws. The FCC, FTC, SEC, the DoJ and the President are responsible for this failure. The question remains, in this "American experiment", whether or not "The People" can do anything other than be led by the nose.
- wpietri 4y agoI think it goes beyond that. To the judiciary for sure, but further. The notion of what antitrust is for has really shifted over the years. Something like the Bell System breakup, which I think was a great choice, is inconceivable today. And that's due to decades of concerted and well funded effort from parts of the US right to be "business friendly". And the specific businesses they mean here are not the small players and the up and comers, but the relatively small number of very rich people running very large companies.