Many thought that the net’s content providers like Google/YouTube would oppose the Telco’s attempts to create hierarchical pricing plans and thus destroy net neutrality. But Google is working on a deal to pay Verizon hierarchical prices for streaming video if Verizon will use Google’s Android operating system in its phones. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/technology/05secret.html?_r=4&pagewanted=1&hp
Practices such as this are referred to as “alliance capitalism.†Corporations conspire together and the consumer’s interests are further eroded. For more on alliance capitalism and culture, see Takis Fotopoulos’ article “Mass Media, Culture and Democracy†at: http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol5/fotopoulos_media.htm
The article rather Marxist for my tastes, but its cultural analysis of corporatism is interesting.
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Many thought that the net’s content providers like Google/YouTube would oppose the Telco’s attempts to create hierarchical pricing plans and thus destroy net neutrality. But Google is working on a deal to pay Verizon hierarchical prices for streaming video if Verizon will use Google’s Android operating system in its phones. See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/technology/05secret.html?_r=4&pagewanted=1&hp
Practices such as this are referred to as “alliance capitalism.†Corporations conspire together and the consumer’s interests are further eroded. For more on alliance capitalism and culture, see Takis Fotopoulos’ article “Mass Media, Culture and Democracy†at:
http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol5/fotopoulos_media.htm
The article rather Marxist for my tastes, but its cultural analysis of corporatism is interesting.