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No reason it can’t be broken apart in the future. States will likely file suit, as twelve already have regarding the Paramount Warner deal.
by toomuchtodo 4mo ago
No reason it can’t be broken apart in the future. States will likely file suit, as twelve already have regarding the Paramount Warner deal.
- pessimizer 4mo agoYou mean that Paramount-Warner deal that people waited and let happen so they could break it up in the future?
- toomuchtodo 4mo agoThe deal that a low regulatory executive administration is supporting, while states attempt to prevent it (acting in place of what one would expect from an appropriately functioning Dept of Justice and FTC) until regime change. Midterms are approaching, and this admin has a bit more than two years left. Some folks involved are either at, or beyond, human life expectancy as well. Sort of but not quite similar to Brexit, which barely eeked by, and now all of the old pensioners who supported it are dead after a decade and the country is ready to consider getting back into the EU. TLDR This low regulatory period of the US political timeline will eventually end, and there will be a lookback/clawback period. Nothing is permanent. Rules can be changed at any time.
- digitaltrees 4mo agoExcept the general trend has not been equal degrees of snap back but rather a general trend towards market consolidation, deregulation, lowering taxes and eliminating anti trust enforcement. If we went back to the regulation immediately post world War this country would feel profoundly different.
- toomuchtodo 4mo agoJudge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989518 - July 2026 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.474157/gov.uscourts.cand.474157.141.0_4.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.47...