<html><head></head><body data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Enviado desde mi smartphone BlackBerry 10.</div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>De: </b>parminder</div><div><b>Enviado: </b>lunes, 27 de enero de 2014 23:48</div><div><b>Para: </b>governance@lists.igcaucus.org; <,bestbits@lists.bestbits.net>,</div><div><b>Responder a: </b>governance@lists.igcaucus.org</div><div><b>Asunto: </b>[governance] New fiefdoms, and a political system to match</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><br><br>Comcast and Charter want to split up Time Warner's cable markets<br><br>http://j.mp/1d5gPN1 (Ars Technica)<br><br> Comcast and Charter are working out a deal in which Charter would<br> acquire Time Warner Cable (TWC) and then sell some of those assets to<br> Comcast. Previously, Charter offered to buy Time Warner for $61.3<br> billion or $37.3 billion excluding TWC's debt. Time Warner management<br> rejected the amount, but Charter is attempting to push an acquisition<br> through by appealing to shareholders. Today, Bloomberg reported that<br> Comcast "is near a deal to buy New York City, North Carolina, and New<br> England cable assets from Charter Communications Inc. if shareholders<br> approve Charter's takeover bid for Time Warner Cable Inc."<br><br>(ends)<br><br>How many got so thoroughly fooled (willingly?) about what WCIT and many <br>global Internet governance battles are really about..... Sure, Internet, <br>that bastion of freedom and multistakeholderism, should never be <br>regulated! That would spoil the party, as a new capital-feudalism <br>emerges, which also has its political seats reserved (as the Lords of <br>yore had in the UK Parliament) through the new political system of <br>multistakeholderism. So that they can make sure that no political <br>process can come in their way ..... No comments here on the so called <br>technical community (read ISOC's response to the recent US court verdict <br>on net neutrality) and civil society.. ... It is a well designed <br>cast.... Unless and until, of course , the people rise....<br><br>Be sure that these early conquests in the US will be repeated in other <br>countries soon.. This is an irresistible political economy paradigm - <br>irresistible for the rich classes, which are now globally networked at <br>the same time as they hide their narrow interests rather well... It is a <br>potent structure and strategy. And no one to bell the cat!<br><br>parminder<br><br><br><br></div></body></html>