• Damage@feddit.it
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      14 hours ago

      Berlusconi in Italy ed originally famously forbidden from owning more than 3 TV stations. Nowadays it doesn’t sound like much but at the time it meant that he had half of the TV stations that actually mattered.

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      20 hours ago

      Technically, it isn’t a monopoly if there are at least two, e.g. Murdoch and Axel Springer.
      So, no to the big corborate media oligopoly!

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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        19 hours ago

        Technically there’s nothing wrong with oligopolies if they abuse their market power. 🤭