Brutkey

Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr

"The logical end point of that claim is that Netflix isn’t a monopoly because people can always shut their eyes and sleep."

-David Dayen, Netflix Aims for Entertainment Domination

https://prospect.org/2025/12/05/netflix-warner-bros-entertainment-domination/

That feels pretty anti-competitive, and should draw a merger challenge. Netflix is likely going to follow the claims that Meta made in dodging a monopolization challenge: that it competes with a multitude of other claims on people’s time, from YouTube to social media. But this is ridiculous; the logical end point of that claim is that Netflix isn’t a monopoly because people can always shut their eyes and sleep. There’s clearly a market in paying a company a monthly fee to watch produced entertainment, and Netflix is consolidating it.