Re:US moves to block Microsoft's Activision takeover
by jaybrendansmith on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @10:24PM
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I sincerely appreciate the corrections, and I don't think it wrecks my argument to have the totals be seven, ten, and five. And owning should be construed as something more extreme than simply dominating in the latter case.
Re:US moves to block Microsoft's Activision takeover
by andsoitis on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @11:47PM
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Near 100% of my food come from producers not one of the 7.
I live in Los Angeles, so that might be a good explanation. But then, how would you economically produce and distribute food to people in more rural locales, if not for some consolidation? The question of course is what is a reasonable number - is it 7? Or 20? There's no objective answer etched into a tablet somewhere. Instead, dynamic social forces produce an outcome.
In television, the vast majority of broadcast and basic cable networks, over a hundred in all, are controlled by seven corporations: Fox Corporation, The Walt Disney Company (which includes the ABC, ESPN, FX and Disney brands), National Amusements (which owns Paramount Global), Comcast (which owns NBCUniversal), Warner Bros. Discovery, E. W. Scripps Company, Cablevision (now known as Altice USA), or some combination thereof. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownersh...
> all of food is owned by four According to Business Insider article from 2016, these 10 companies control almost every large food and beverage brand in the "world": https://www.businessinsider.com/10-companies-control-the-foo...
> and all of computing is owned by five I wonder whether "computing" and "owned" makes sense in the way you phrase your argument.