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I'd like the government to use it as a reason to break up the vertical monopolies too.
There's no reason that an actor's strike should have anything to do with your internet service provider. But, it might because Comcast owns NBCUniversal which owns Universal Studios. That means that everything between an actor and your eyeballs might be owned by one single company.
Because many ISPs have regional monopolies, it means that if Comcast added an item to their bill for "crushing the strikes" many people really wouldn't have any option other than to pay it.
Comcast shouldn't own NBC or Universal. Disney shouldn't own ABC or ESPN or Photobucket or Sky or Marvel.
I very much agree.
Just fyi, that infographic is very out of date, still lists entities like Sky, who have been part of Comcast over 5 years now.
Actually, I don’t know how they ended up there. Disney didn’t own Fox until after Fox sold their stake in Sky. Makes me question the data set the designer used.