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>Anyone in CA want to comment? Our media landscape is controlled by an oligopoly that has a stronghold on our federal politicians and web neutrality threatens

• transcriptase 3y ago
  Precisely. Rogers, Telus, and Bell control practically all Canadian mobile/internet/tv/radio. The bodies that are supposed to regulate them are run by former execs of these companies, and our competition bureau seems to think that anything short of one of them having 100% market share means they don’t need to actually intervene in any mergers or acquisitions. Politicians obviously don’t want to upset three of the most powerful, well poised to influence public perception companies in Canada… which may as well be considered a single entity with respect to them actually competing at all. And so they basically all lobby for the same insane, protectionist, anti-competition, anti-consumer laws and regulations, and nearly always get their way. In recent years this means prodding the government to introduce absurd regulations on the internet.
• VirusNewbie 3y ago
  right right, the solution to an oligopoly is to have it controlled instead by a single entity that also has a monopoly on violence.