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   From: jdgalt@att.net   
      
   > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:25 PM Moderator wrote:   
   >> Verizon has been quietly scrambling to unload HuffPost as it grapples   
   >> with continued losses at the left-leaning news and culture website, The   
   >> Post has learned.   
      
   On 09/29/2020 10:33 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:   
   > I can't help but wonder.... Why is a telecom company dabling in   
   > journalism? It is not of their core business. As Warren Buffet would   
   > say, it is a distraction that should be struck from the list of goals.   
   >   
   > What else non-essential junk is Verizon holding? Grocery store chains?   
   > Gas stations? Meat packaging plants?   
      
   You appear to be way behind the times.  Verizon is one of six companies   
   that control 90% of all communications industries worldwide -- not only   
   telecom but the Internet, radio and television, book and music   
   publishing, movies both in theaters and online, and newspapers too.  Why   
   do you think "cancel culture" is managing to silence so many people?   
      
   Add to those six, Google, Facebook, and Twitter, and Mastercard and   
   Visa, and you've got a cartel with a scary level of ability to punish   
   people for disagreeing with the party line.  That ability needs to go away.   
      
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