Back to the rise of the monopolies in the ever cyclical world of business and law.
Sessions screws up again...
Boooooo!
Not good, in my opinion.
They should just combine all large corporations into one big company and get it over with. /s
Crapcast and Fox merging is a different combination because of Xfinity and the cable operations.
Great news!
Start cleaning out your desk, Zuck.
Robert Bork’ s views on monopoly, adopted by the DOJ in the 1970s prevail.
Thanks in large part to groundbreaking books in the 1970s by the Supreme Court nominee and Yale Law School antitrust scholar Robert Bork (“The Antitrust Paradox”) and Richard Posner (now an influential judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals) at the University of Chicago Law School (“Antitrust Law”), vertical mergers came to be viewed as usually promoting competition and, by extension, consumer welfare.
The view was embraced by the Supreme Court and embedded in the Justice Department’s vertical merger guidelines during the Reagan administration.
Efficiency. Now if you want to add a channel to the cable line up you’ll just dial zero for the operator.
A Bush appoointee:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Leon
So, by this I suppose it would be O.K for Verizon to buy Comcast??
Not sure this is the “competitive” market place Adam Smith favored.
Me no likie.
Government should protect the free market and competition, not hasten its demise.
Can DOJ appeal this black robed tyrant’s ruling?
Josef Goebbels would have loved our consolidated media.
Sad to say, at this point my gut reaction is that any loss for our “justice” department is a win. I don’t care who’s right or wrong anymore . . . the DOJ is so utterly corrupt that I can’t make myself want to see them win at anything.
He looks like George Costanza.
No good will come from this. Ultimately the consumer will pay dearly for this mistake.
I was paying $144 a month before cutting the cord. I now pay half that and have far more choices.
ATT/Timewarner will raise prices to pay for this.
Someday the Mouse or Bezos will own EVERYTHING.
I’m betting on the Mouse.
Who knew a hard-working funny guy named Walt from Missouri would create the vehicle for the Anti-Christ?