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Nah, we’ve seen that big firms that have control of substantially influential media platforms will be able to get Trump to save them—all they’ll need to do is m
by dragonwriter 1y ago
Nah, we’ve seen that big firms that have control of substantially influential media platforms will be able to get Trump to save them—all they’ll need to do is meet some “mild” ideological demands on content that leave them plenty of room to make more money for their investors than if they didn't play ball. (And if they don’t, the Trump Administration can find more bureaucratic jeopardy and cost to impose until they do.)
- lenkite 1y agoThe Trump administration is pretty heavily into anti-trust. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/09/gail-slater-donald-trump-antitrust-00277348 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/09/gail-slate...
- dragonwriter 1y agoThe Trump Administration is pretty heavily into losing its “principled” policy-based objections to media mergers, acquisitions, etc., when content-based concessions are made (and to privately suggesting those concessions while publicly embracing the policy-based objections up until the moment a deal is made.)
- lenkite 1y agoCan you give some links on what you state ? The recent HPE-Juniper merger was apparently pushed by US intelligence: https://fortune.com/2025/08/01/hpe-juniper-networks-national-security-huawei/ https://fortune.com/2025/08/01/hpe-juniper-networks-national...