![]() ![]() ![]() In the championship round, though, Electronic Arts surprisingly beat down Bank of America. It then took on one of the titans of anti-consumer policy, Ticketmaster, whose monopoly on the concert and event industry has inflated prices for decades. ĮA first toppled some lightweights like accused privacy-violator and social network king Facebook, as well as spotty mobile service provider AT&T. This has been proven once again, as for the second year in a row, online voters have dubbed EA the champion in Consumerist’s Worst Company in America competition. Consensus usually comes through things like the September 11 attacks, tragic deaths of beloved celebrities/public figures, or, apparently, a bad launch of a game and an over abundance of microtransactions. It takes a special event or entity to bring people together, especially on the Internet when anonymous opinions mean anything goes. From the comments on a New York Times op-ed about gun control to a YouTube video of cats singing Bruce Springsteen songs, the standard operating procedure for discourse on the web is vitriolic disagreement. ![]() There are times when it feels like the most vocal communities on the Internet are wholly incapable of consensus. ![]()
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