AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner

Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by platinumrad on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:10PM (#17298029)

To be fair, the DOJ actually tried to stop this but was overruled by the courts.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by gm-conspiracy on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:46PM (#17298352)

Jeff Sessions, servant of the people?

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by ghostbrainalpha on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:44PM (#17299067)

Jeff Sessions, servant of some of the people?

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by ribosometronome on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:34PM (#17298687)

To be fair, the DOJ's motives were completely tainted by Trump's hostility toward CNN.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by kuraudo on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:40PM (#17298725)

I get what you're saying, but that shouldn't matter in a sane world. This merger is bad news for the citizenry.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by TomMckenny on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:33PM (#17299025)

>This merger is bad news for the citizenry.

It is. And had it been successfully blocked, the message would be clearly understood by media outlet owners far beyond CNN's owner.

It is in fact lose-lose.

Same goes for whatever ends up happening to Amazon/WaPo.

This is the only anti-trust you can expect to see now.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by s2g on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @08:10PM (#17299204)

> Same goes for whatever ends up happening to Amazon/WaPo.

Pretty sure Bezos bought it, not Amazon.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by TomMckenny on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @08:48PM (#17299361)

You punish Bezos by attacking Amazon.

I don't think the folks who ended net neutrality then go on twitter tirades against Amazon for the public good. Especially since each tweet drives down the value of tech companies.

I certainly can't defend the AT&T-Warner merger nor Amazon's near monopoly. But the enforcement is totally selective and for an insidious reason.

http://fortune.com/2018/04/04/donald-trump-amazon-jeff-bezos...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/07/trump-bezos-...

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by paulddraper on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:39PM (#17298722)

Obviously, whatever Trump does is bad, whether busting monopolies or not busting monopolies.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by takeda on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @11:55AM (#17304255)

That was a good thing, but for wrong reasons.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by jakevn on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @09:26PM (#17299543)

Has Trump been busting monopolies?

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by paulddraper on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:22AM (#17300453)

Well, that was the attempt here.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by croon on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:17AM (#17302740)

No, the attempt was silencing unfavorable media. The monopoly part was a neglected side effect.

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