Warning from Ron Filipkowski about right-wing oligarchs

[highplainsdem]

Once right-wing oligarchs gain control of just about every national and local media company, social media platform, and big AI, as they are systematically doing with little notice from the general public, it will be game, set and match for the Republic.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-12-10T21:34:59.370Z

Likely the only way out is for a Democratic administration to actually enforce anti-trust laws. At some point.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-12-10T21:36:49.903Z

[spanone]

1. K&R

He's RIGHT!

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Media Monopoly

Ben Bagdikian warned us.

When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers, and movie companies has dwindled from fifty to ten to five.

https://www.beacon.org/The-New-Media-Monopoly-P1127.aspx

[erronis]

3. Anybody else noticed that "alternate" voices are only on the internet? And it is controlled by big corps?

3-2-1. Radio silence.

[FakeNoose]

6. And we've ceded (given up) a lot of territory

There are very few Dems or liberals on Facebook, almost none on Xwitter...

Reddit and TikTok might be up for grabs, but are Dems even trying to win social media websites?
I don't think so.

We're safe and comfy on DU, and nobody hears us except other people who think just like we do.

[slightlv]

4. We'll need to do more than just enforce anti-trust laws.

It used to be against the law to have a monopoly. That needs to come back big time, with ownership of certain # and types of media are stripped from some of these people. We also need to create new laws to enable fairness, privacy, and decency to again make a comeback in this country. I'm thinking of "AI" (big or not). That crap has to be regulated.. period. Just like cryptocurrency. The world has moved on without the Maga, and we don't have the laws now to protect us from the damage. And first, and foremost, will be fixing the SCOTUS, cause we're not wrenching anything from the oligarchs without a lawful SCOTUS.

[Martin Eden]

5. ABSO-EFFIN-LUTELY !!!

That is EXACTLY what's transpiring right now.

It's a 5-Alarm Fire, but practically ignored by the media.