{"id":847640,"date":"2024-08-24T09:10:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T03:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=847640"},"modified":"2024-08-24T09:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T03:45:42","slug":"conflating-the-modern-age-of-technology-with-the-old-era-of-imperialism-is-faulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/24\/conflating-the-modern-age-of-technology-with-the-old-era-of-imperialism-is-faulty\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflating the modern age of technology with the old era of imperialism is faulty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The irony could not have been starker. Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal\u2019s concerns about predatory pricing by multinational e-commerce firms, where he specifically named Amazon, comes at a time when the Competition Commission of India is examining whether the proposed Reliance-Disney merger has the potential to harm competition. The basic issue being examined is whether Reliance\u2019s combined market share of TV as well as over-the-top streaming will give it unfair pricing power with regard to cricket broadcasting rights. Goyal\u2019s comments also come at a time when the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) is in the process of drafting a Digital Competition Act,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The irony could not have been starker. Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal\u2019s concerns about predatory pricing by multinational e-commerce firms, where he specifically named Amazon, comes at a time when the Competition Commission of India is examining whether the proposed Reliance-Disney merger has the potential to harm competition. The basic issue being examined is whether Reliance\u2019s combined market share of TV as well as over-the-top streaming will give it unfair pricing power with regard to cricket broadcasting rights. Goyal\u2019s comments also come at a time when the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) is in the process of drafting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}