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"So we’ve been noting how the Trump administration has been helping Larry
Ellison wage war on Netflix’s proposed merger with Warner Brothers. Not because
they care about antitrust (that’s always been a lie), but because they want
Larry Ellison to be able to dominate media and create a safe space for
unpopular right wing ideology.
After Warner Brothers balked at Larry’s competing bid and a hostile takeover
attempt, Larry tried to sue Warner Brothers. With that not going anywhere,
Larry and MAGA have since joined forces to try and attack the Netflix merger
across right wing media, falsely claiming that “woke” Netflix is attempting a
“cultural takeover” that must be stopped for the good of humanity.
With hearings on the Netflix merger looming, MAGA has ramped up those attacks
with the help of some usual allies. That includes the right wing think tank the
Heritage Foundation, which has apparently been circulating a bogus study around
DC claiming that Netflix and Warner Brothers are “engineering millions of
Americans into a predisposition to accept preferred leftwing ideological
dogma”:
“Without ever saying Warner Bros or bid rival Paramount by name, the
Oversight Project’s analysis, titled Fedflix: Netflix, The Federal
Government, and the New Propaganda State, insists that “relevant federal
agencies must scrutinize with extreme intensity any potential Netflix
acquisitions of other media and entertainment companies to take into account
the full ramifications of the impacts on American society and the health of
the Constitutional Republic.”
Again, the goal here is to ensure that Larry Ellison can buy Netflix (and HBO
and CNN). Larry, as we’ve seen vividly with his acquisitions of CBS and TikTok,
is buying up new and old media to create a propaganda safe space for America’s
increasingly unhinged and anti-democratic extraction class. Like Elon Musk’s
acquisition of Twitter, the goal is propaganda and information control."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
