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US Regulators May Scuttle Time Warner Cable - Comcast Merger

posted by martyb on Sunday April 19 2015, @04:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the can't-harm-competition-where-there-is-none dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Ever since Time Warner and Comcast announced their intent to seek a merger, public opinion has been fiercely against the idea. The discussions over whether the merger should be allowed have sparked increased discussion around the effective oligopoly and profound anticompetitive nature of American broadband. Now, news has broken that the US government’s regulators are considering killing the deal.

There’s been little serious argument that the merger should be allowed to proceed. While the two companies protested that allowing them to merge wouldn’t harm competition, the maps they produced to demonstrate this wound up illustrating just how anti-competitive the current system already is.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/203664-us-regulators-reportedly-gearing-up-to-kill-time-warner-comcast-merger?

[Related]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-17/u-s-antitrust-lawyers-said-to-be-leaning-against-comcast-merger

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday April 21 2015, @12:14AM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <bassbeast1968NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Tuesday April 21 2015, @12:14AM (#173337) Journal

    Here is the part of the equation you are missing friend...Ayn Rand and the SJWs. I live next to a conservative college and let me tell you the Ayn Randiates? Think poor folks starving in the streets would be just hunky dory, same as the SJWs believe that anybody who isn't white is always right and that whether you are allowed to be heard should be based on the progressive stack.

    You see what you are missing friend is unlike the corps of old, who just did this shit because it was the easiest way to make more money, these nutters....they actually believe their bullshit which IMHO makes them a LOT more dangerous than your average corp just trying to bribe all the sides so they get sweetheart deals. Try talking to a neocon or ultraleft SJW sometime...it's fucking scary, and these people are throwing SERIOUS MONEY trying to get their views forced down everybody's throats...again VERY fucking scary.

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    ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
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