I know there has been a lot of conversation on this topic, but this clip was too good to pass up. WARNING: CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE.
Although the video above is by a parody account called Funny or Die, there is more truth behind it than we’d like to think. The video suggests Comcast, a major company that purchased Time Warner Cable thereby making a super corporation, may be gaining a little too much control across the United States. With all that control, the fake spokesperson is essentially saying “we don’t care about you” and “we don’t have to.”
Most of us have heard about the potential negative results that could come along with the merger. You thought Time Warner Cable customer service was bad? Oh, just you wait. Comcast customer service will be even worse, because they don’t care and they don’t have to. Even if viewers threaten to switch to Hulu and Netflix (which I’ve previously done when I got tired of being put on hold with TWC), Comcast still has some control over you; the company is a co-owner of Hulu and charges Netflix for streaming content. They have their foot in every door.
The video even suggests Comcast has been called “the Walmart” of mass media simply because of how much they don’t care about their customers. The lawsuits and violations don’t seem to faze the company in the least. If they have enough money and power to purchase a (mostly) successful company for $45 billion, they certainly have enough to pay off a few companies or people.
In the end, even though this video is a joke, it’s still pretty scary to think about how much power and influence one company could have over our lives.