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AI bubble does hurt the ellisons thanks to oracle but I dunno how much they have billions a thing that genuinely should not exist

I think we the people know what we need to do here

I have a pitch for Ellison. Hear me out. Ready? “ICE Capades”

Time for the unions to step up and boycott these people.

Anti trust was a good thing. Now it's in the fascist dumpster along with free speech and due process. One day there will be few of us left who remember any of these things. Or Democracy.

The merging of the Corporation and the State continue

which means this could end up like the last two-decades' worth of Warner Brothers related mergers stemming from AOL to AT&T. Just a big pile of overvalued enshittification. Things could get worse with a massive wave of consumer defections (😉), and if an AI bubble pop straining Larry's assets.

It'll be impossible to navigate. Paramount will have to renegotiate the NFL deal, Ellison's kid is hoarding cable channels in an era where cable TV is dying. Even with a bunch of hit movies WBD is losing money.

Nepobaby is right. More money than brains.

Sadly I think that's the point. Just consolidate it all under the Fox News banner.

'Journalism'! my. how Quaint. .

I am absolutely convinced we need a new age of anti trust monopoly enforcement where we force all of these gargantuan media and tech conglomerates to break up into small chunks. This much power is too concentrated for any one company and doesn’t allow competition to thrive

It's never been clear to why the rules of EU membership don't include not being fascist

Lots of incompetence, but there's also a lot of money to buy what they want. The Billionaires are happy to help with the project.

For example there used to be a limit on the # of TV stations a company could own - 3! then 5 - then 7... now you can reach 39% of the country before you get in any trouble... Re: news orgs I think we need an ecosystem of non-profits like AP/proPublica etc. We need to protect the foundations though!

what now, @lastweektonight.com?

The fascist takeover is saving me so much money in subscriptions in Prime, Peacock, and soon HBO, that I can still buy groceries.

Turn it off don't support pedophiles

just don't watch it 🤷 these assholes are billionaires bc we keep giving them money and attention -- stop doing that

Alternative view: Ellison got played by Netflix. They inflated the shares and made Ellison eat it, and got 2.8 billion and Ellison got useless IP and he is so toxic it will fail and Netflix will swoop in in a few years and pick up the pieces. This is exactly what Netflix wanted.

They have nothing without consumers. Cut every one of these outlets off. Every single one. No cash for fascism.

If Lucy was still with us, she'd probably rescind the sale of her beloved company, so at least they wouldn't have 𝙖𝙡𝙡 the marbles...

And so it goes.

@karlbode.com Gleichschaltung

Boycott! It's the one thing Americans can do. Hurt them in the wallet.

There is a possible future here where in a few years Netflix realizes it dodged a huuuge bullet. HBOMax has a couple decent shows but definitely has declined a bit, CNN sucks, CBS sucks. I think the whole thing is a money pit. I get it’s for media control but what if nobody’s watching?

Time to cancel all mainstream news outlets. Weiss will pollute the airwaves with disinformation.

Since I'm an old fuck I don't watch any of that crap anyway but thinking I'll open up a Netflix account now

Can you say anti trust ???

And his best friends will run the other half. My guess is that soon we should stop calling TV news mainstream media and call them fascist state News.

And each and every entity you've listed plus any and all associated entities are now dead to me... Anything promulgated by any of those entities is suspect at best. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤡🤡🫏🫏🖕💩💩

I mean, the fact is they're all owned by nutters high off their own supply. They just give off the appearance of threatening intimidation, but they're a house of cards in the background.

I predict Paramount's balloon will soon burst.

We’ve been Orbanized. How do we undo this? Poland took back their democracy but is struggling with fixing the Orbanization of their media.

As for TikTok, that place has been really shitty from the very start since it's founding in 2016, and it'll continue to be really shitty until it shuts down one day.

"...no republic is safe that tolerates a privileged class, or denies to any of its citizens equal rights and equal means to maintain them". Frederick Douglass, 1866

Looks like I’ll be reading more books.

The Americans that believe in the Constitution and our Freedoms need to ween themselves off of these corrupt racist media and find neutral alternatives. Fight the oligarch takeover!

bsky.app/profile/patr...

Wtf.....

The year is 2040. HBO announces season 13 of "Melania" is a go.....

they need to find messaging that can exploit social media virality, and help fund platforms resilient to billionaire meddling

We haven't had serious antitrust enforcement in decades. Corporate power and corruption has completely rotted corporate accountability and regulatory autonomy, though people here somehow pretend that's not true

We Were Not Supposed to Sell the Information open.substack.com/pub/mrnobody...

In the old days weld call this a monopoly and litigation would stop it but not with this DOJ.

Thank goodness I have The Wire on dvd. I'm gonna miss you, HBO.

What could go wrong!?!? 😭🥲

bsky.app/profile/dela...

This is the end result I expected, but didn’t hope for. I always knew that the Ellisons relationship with Trump would prevail. Despite what some of the smartest people in the room kept telling us, the fix was in! Netflix never really stood a chance.

Along with twitter. But hey “liberal media bias” is totally real🙄

Its our turn.

I'm sure

And X

I’m really going to miss John Oliver. Looking forward to all the samizdat publishers and comedians we are going to get though. Passing content around on thumb drives that self-destruct.

Whelp. That made my media choices easy.

Cancelled subscriptions. Buy used. #notamazon

This redefines media space: self reduce the offer… read books

...and I won't patronize any of them.

So this is what it's like to witness the burning of Rome, in this case the entertainment industry as a whole.

Well fuck

This may backfire on them bsky.app/profile/tenn...

A high-stakes media cage match erupts as empires battle to control attention, outrage, and the last scraps of a fractured audience. open.substack.com/pub/growingu...

Welp,I will just be watching something else or reading because fuck those dudes!

Sure, it sucks, but it makes it easy to boycott (and I personally don't watch/subscribe to Paramount/CNN//HBO, etc. anyway)

What could go wrong? Murdoch, Ellison, Trump, Musk, Thiel… A bunch of self centered billionaires controlling the surveillance, algorithms and the news.

🤬🤬🤬🤮

The 1996 Telcom Act opened the door to this insanity. Dems must break up these megacorps and reverse that Act.

Just cancelled my Paramount subscription.

Fk!

Independent daily Trump news from a Dutch journalist written in english, She has been doing this since the start of Trump II, so 400+ days. reportersonline.eu/author/kirst...

They'll both be fully owned subsidiaries of the Military Industrial Infotainment Corporate Complex

Good times…Anyone remember when Ma Bell was too big? Look at this shit…

How do I bet on this corporate leviathan losing money when Trump dies?

If we get through this, the thing that needs to come after "prosecutions" on the national to-do list is "de-conglomeration".

Hey but MAGA Nazi movies will be released in theaters, so cinema is saved

Wonder why Trump thinks he’s a superior human being.

Luckily none of Trump's dwindling cult watch any of that stuff anyway. This will simply accelerate the demise of these old media dinosaurs, destroying their last claims to legitimacy or accuracy. American money will flow around them like water flows around rocks.

everything will be fed to ai we will never see a decent movie unless it's a horror film karl, i hate it when you prove to be a modern nostradamus. we are so doomed.

cool. note to self. Cancel hbo

The FCC was and is not involved at all dipshit. Carr spouts opinions all the time about things the FCC isn’t even involved with. What broadcast licenses? There aren’t any involved here. And there certainly were none either Netflix.

The Guardian is another option.

Are we confining ourselves to US-based media outfits?

Reuters, AP, BBC, PBS, NPR

So I guess the DC Universe that was just starting to get fixed under James Gunn is gonna go to shit now. Have a feeling if this merger happens Gunn will walk away too.

What could go wrong?

He's gonna fuck with the midterms, book it Dano

That telecommunications act from 1996 sure keeps screwing us. Allowing media monopolies was a terrible idea.

Thanks for the list of networks and companies to boycott. I'll let my wallet do the talking.

Because these types will totally buy it

Wow it's almost like, I dunno, a coup?