Disney on Sunday pulled its ABC stations, ESPN and other cable networks from DirecTV’s lineup as the two companies failed to reach a new distribution deal, leaving millions of sports fans in the dark as the college football and NFL seasons get underway.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    AT&T and Google don’t have any problem being monopolies without a geographic lock on things.

    AT&T purchased DirecTV, then to get out of direct monopoly charges they spun it off as its own company but retained 70% ownership.

    Just about every decent sized company out there is just a single entity in a giant monopolistic trench coat.

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      2 months ago

      “is” or “strives to be” a monopoly? I think the value of monopoly criticism gets diluted when used to liberally to not actually describe them. I would not say every “decent sized company” out there is a monopoly…