Love how "conservatives" love regulating business now, and liberals all of a sudden love AT&T mega monopoly

Love how "conservatives" love regulating business now, and liberals all of a sudden love AT&T mega monopoly.

monopolies are only created through overregulation

That's retarded and you know it. Just stop.

Bullshit. Monopolization is a natural phenomenon and the market naturally gravitates towards it. 'Muh only gubbermint creates monopolies' is market fundamentalist propaganda.

Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican, and he's the king of killing monopolies. If he were alive today, Google and AT&T would've given him a heart attack from how powerful they've gotten.

*blocks your path*

Can I be the top hat?

You know what else naturally happens when you big up a huge lead? You get lazy and your business atrophies. Cable is highly regulated by the way so looks like it did a great job keeping the market from being monopolized by two or three people like every industry that highly regulated

This is in one of the most regulated industries out there, and you know who writes those regulations?

You dumb as hell.

>You get lazy and your business atrophies
Bullshit, more propaganda. AT&T, JP Morgan, BNY Mellon, Boeing, Coca-Cola, Proctor and Gamble, Union Pacific, and many others are 100< years old and are churning out billions in dividends and stock buybacks year in and year out.

>Cable is highly regulated by the way so looks like it did a great job keeping the market from being monopolized by two or three people
More bullshit propaganda. Cable has ridiculously high capital barriers to entry.

You do realize that all of these companies are technically at the mercy of the government, right? At any given moment, all of these companies can be arrested and plundered and ALL assets seized and everyone jailed.

I'm just not sure why the companies aren't afraid of this.

>liberals all of a sudden love AT&T mega monopoly.

Reminder Obama forced us to subsidize the the Insurance Industry, expanded the bailouts, supported school choice vouchers (taking funds from public schools), just like Republicans, put Citigroup execs in key positions...

If you want to go further, look at expanding war efforts (Syria, Libya....), expanding NSA spying, et cetera.

THIS IS NOW THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!

because they run the fucking government

Yeah but isn't the government also.. the fucking government? I mean the government can end their profitable partnership in exchange for a quick gain, which they technically could do at any time. Who's going to complain, and to who? Sealed indictments, gag orders, deny bail, rinse and repear.

Fuck ATT and Comcast.

Internet should be a municipal utility. We should be investing in fiber to every home, a smart grid electrical system, light rail and a ton of other shit.

>muh left/right false paradigm

The left has shortend the overton window. It will be their demise

until a new company comes along and shatters their model

big companies move slowly. why should we care if AT&T wants to buy Time Warner? We didn't give a fuck when AOL got bought by Time Warner

>until a new company comes along and shatters their model
Yeah, no. Competition is inherently asymmetric. More likely: New competition comes along with inherently lower economies of scale and thus, higher prices, but has a good idea. AT&T comes along and buys up the new company by making an attractive offer to the new company's investors. Buh-bye competition!

>big companies move slowly
More bullshit propaganda. That's not even folk-wisdom tier. P&G, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's, Amazon, Apple, and countless more massive companies are just as lean and agile as ever.

> why should we care if AT&T wants to buy Time Warner
More massive market consolidation, especially in the wake of a possible loss of net neutrality.

>We didn't give a fuck when AOL got bought by Time Warner
Market share impact matters.

>Cable
>High Barrier to entry
>Limited number of bands
>Cable Companies have captured regulatory agencies via democratic methods

We just need da free marget dooo fix iddd :>>>D

Not wanting the President to use the government as a retaliation tool is not equivalent to loving vertical integration. It's equivalent to being anti-totalitarian. Unlike conservatives, liberals actually have principles. They don't shift their beliefs whenever it is convenient to do so.

ur actually fucking retarded

Scrilla'Villa

>light rail
HOW ABOUT YOU DONT BRING NIGGERS INTO THE SUBURBS KTHNX

This comment is absolutely correct. Monopolies are created by state intervention into business and industries. Without the ability to leverage law with influence, industries must compete according to laws of economics which allows the eventual rise of competitive peer business

So would you guys say you have negative or positive feelings about at&t

If you researched AT&Ts president, his past affiliations and his membership in the CFR, then researched the CFR, it would reveal the true nature of the relationship between government and private industry within the US, which is more formally known as "fascism".

The government should act upon big business gravitating toward a monopoly, or even too much concentration of business, the same way and for the same reason it acts upon attacks on our propriety and life, which is to defend our freedoms.
You could even stretch it and say that a monopoly is an attack to our propriety rights almost as much as a thief robbing us. If we lack the freedom to trade, we lose freedom over our wealth.
In the case of a high concentration of not only any business but media corporations, the government should be even more draconic, because we are also dealing with freedom of the press.
You might ask what does it have to do with free speech??? Well, I tell you my thesis that may not be applicable to the US law. The "press" in freedom of the press are not the media institutions in the sense that a newspaper is untouchable by the laws, but the overall principle of press, the idea, the spirit, which is the free dissemination of information. If a media corporation controls too much of the flow of information, narratives and opinions, it is basically limiting, reducing and degrading the "press" in a society, and as with other freedoms, the job of the government is to protect this freedom with all its might.