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from the can't-harm-competition-where-there-is-none dept.
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
(Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Monday April 20 2015, @02:12AM
Did you donate $1.2 million dollars to various political causes? https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000000094&cycle=2014
I'll bet you didn't and it's just laziness on your part really. If you could just be bothered getting up and supporting your Senator or Congress person with just a couple of million, then you too could take part in the process.