And contrary to its massive promotion, the vestigial AOL world is today actually a road block to user-friendly computing on the Web. My hometown ISP lets me get on the Web with a single click. AOL evades oblivion because there are millions of technophobic grandmas and grandpas who get taken in by advertising claims that Big is Simple. This deal is about survival, not dominance. Thanks to technology, that individual will have the same visual production quality and global distribution clout as the biggest, baddest worldwide media conglomerate.
Liberals can tuck in their anti-trust claws, too.
And then it will be curtains for Time-Warner as well. For in the long-term, the Web will deliver radio, television, and movies directly to the consumer. What we're basically looking at is a half-trillion dollars of dust in the wind. Well . . . But idiocy doesn't go away under socialism.