Comcast to control the Internet in 2/3 of the country? Our Internet service providers (ISPs) are incredibly powerful gatekeepers when it comes to what we can see and do online — even more so since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lost its ability last month to ensure that ISPs dont block or discriminate against web content they dont like. And if your ISP also happens to be the largest cable TV provider in the country and largest media conglomerate in the world — Comcast — it has tremendous incentive to restrict your access to the free and open web. Now Comcast is asking the FCC to approve a $45.2 billion deal to acquire Time Warner Cable, which would expand Comcasts reach into a full two-thirds of US households. Will you join our partners at Daily Kos in taking action to stop the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger now? Comcast and Time Warner Cable have long refused to compete directly for customers, instead divvying up the marketplace to keep prices artificially high and infrastructure investment — service quality — at unacceptably low levels. Comcast has already acknowledged this wont change if the merger goes forward, and that the company plans to drop the service of three million current Time Warner Cable subscribers entirely. To win FCC approval, Comcast has to convince agency commissioners that allowing it to gobble up Time Warner Cable would actually benefit the public interest. Our friends at Daily Kos know nothing could be further from the truth; please take a moment to read their email below and take action to stop the merger now. Sign the petition to demand the FCC block the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. Thanks and Peace, --Rashad, Arisha, Matt, Kim, Johnny and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team February 20th, 2014 Marva, Comcast—already the country’s largest cable and internet service provider—wants to take over Time Warner, the country’s second-largest cable and internet provider. Sign the petition to the FCC: Stop the Comcast-Time Warner merger. This deal is a huge threat to American consumers. It would give Comcast a presence in every major media market in the United States, strangle competition, and, considering Comcast’s ownership of NBC Universal—a major movie and television studio—create a vertically integrated media monster. https://dailykos/campaigns/679
Posted on: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:19:54 +0000
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