Quotes from Tim Wu

programs are scheduled interruptions of marketing bulletins.

There is no understanding communications, or the American and global culture industry, without understanding the conglomerate. Yet

by the FCC's own reckoning, the cable companies will soon enjoy an uncontested monopoly over broadband Internet in much of the United States beyond the East Coast, and they are also seeking control of more Hollywood studios and television networks.

I don't think anyone at Google feels happy about it, but they've been in some sense, you know, enslaved to their business model, and so they have to satisfy their advertisers.

Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.