This thought popped into my head after reading this article: http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/14/comcast-to-launch-its-own-youtube-rival-called-watchable/

I also am aware of how politically to the left Vox and BF are as well. I thought about this and it made me wonder why a company like CC would own a publication that is ideologically at odds with CC's financial politics. I don't have any real evidence of anything in what follows I was simply letting my mind wander.

The atlantic has a really good article about thought-crime under the pretense of trigger warnings: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

Corporations like Comcast are fiscally right. They court politicians on the right to advance specific agendas. They also own publications like Vox and Buzzfeed which, among other things, courts the millennial demographic and has a decidedly left lean. By using their media publications corporations like Comcast push large voter demographics to lean and vote left by financing far right politicians and then write about the wackiness of those politicians. But the rabbit hole gets deeper. Comcast also courts big players on the left in DC and elsewhere as well. They lobby these politicians to create policies that rely more heavily on thought control and policing crimethink which makes these young voters ultimately more malleable and thus can be controlled. Where the politicians on the right want to control your physical body the politicians on the left want to control your thought. The entire thing is one giant dance with large corporations acting like financial reapers indoctrinating so as to exert more control. This control simply equates to more money and more power. The scheme seems complex but the goals seems simple. Maybe that’s the genius of it.