• AT&T wins: Judge clears $85 billion bid for Time Warner with no conditions
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/12/att-time-warner-ruling.html crazy how this happens right after net neutrality is murderered
aaaaand we're fucked
I just can't wait to buy my internet from Comcast/TimeWarner/AT&T Co!
Further consolidation data and communications companies will have catastrophic impacts on the internet as we know it. That proponents of destroying Net Neutrality and allowing mergers like this to occur dared to argue that it had to be done to "promote competition and innovation" is disgusting.
Not just the internet, but if they can pick and choose what content they'll let their customers access, it essentially means it's very possible we'll all get our information from one of three places. It's state sponsored television except instead of brainwashing people to being patriotic it's being used to make the extremely large and rich corporations even more money
Looks like it's about time for google searches of "how to build your own internet" to spike again. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109874/94c90c92-2115-4372-bc50-b920821d2dcd/image.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109874/4b7927bf-272f-4f12-85de-bbc9225383b6/image.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109874/0b022303-aa33-473f-b3b8-7425e443cda1/image.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109874/49eef3a6-955e-409c-b5c3-449e6eb69aff/image.png Cool link about some cool dudes in spain
ideally id love to see a future where comcast and at&t are completely cut apart into a shitload of different companies but with net neutrality being killed off i dont see that happening basically ever how long until they start trying to get rid of monopoly laws too
ATT was already broken apart once... and then reacquired half of the new companies. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1874/4496a621-093b-4b21-b4b3-1e42381e9a1d/v2uhZ.jpg
In a better world company mergers would only happen if there's an actual reason or it really benefits consumers.
This is the better world for the CEOs who get the money.
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