Why Antitrust Regulators Should Reject WBD-Paramount Merger: Column

Quite frankly, WB should not be able to merge with any company, especially another media conglomerate. If anything, if it wants to sell, it should be forced to break up its assets and sell it off to multiple different and distinct buyers. Or at least thats how it should be if anti trust/monopoly laws were properly respected and enforced.

And why they won’t:

The fact that we even have to debate this shows how far weve fallen. Merging two of the Big Five studios is the literal definition of an anti-competitive monopoly, but the regulators will probably just watch it happen while we end up paying $30 a month for a single buggy app.

And why they won't: They're all corrupt shitheads who will be personally enriched by the deal. The whole state-run media empire thing is just a perk.

Is antitrust regulation really a thing anymore? Isn't tech bros running things lol

The should reject it. But they should reject a merger with anyone else too.

Letting a merger like that go through just gives people even fewer real choices.

Yeah, but have you considered the Ellisons are buddy buddy with the administration?

U.S. antitrust law is lax AF. Just look at Sysco for example. One of the worst offenders. Ticketmaster too.

Call your congressperson, AG and representative and tell them to oppose the Paramount/WB merger, and explicitly tell them why. Tell them that This consolidation is bad for consumers. It raises prices, eliminates thousands of jobs, especially working and middle class jobs, lowers competition, and takes away consumer choices. Tell them to short the stock too before they reject it for an added incentive Here a list of the congresspeople, lawmakers, and reps of each state around to help [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_current\_United\_States\_representatives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_representatives) [https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/current](https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/current) [https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/](https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/) Also make a meme stock out of WB

The UAE should pull all their money out of the deal since their backroom deals with Dear Leader have gone sideways following the Iran debacle.

Honestly, I feel like either not much will change, or things will change so much, the company collapses.

This was a great read. So much of that debt is unobtainable. Makes no sense financially.

We just need Iran to make a tweet saying that they told Trump to approve the merger, and it will be dead within 2 hours

This might be a dumb question but do anti-trust laws like…actually mean anything?

As if they have power… /s Seriously this admin is the furthest thing from Teddy Roosevelt

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Cuz f****** duh

This merger is just gonna give us fewer, worse movies and more expensive streaming. Monopolies suck for everyone except the execs cashing the checks.

This merger is a terrible idea. We already have too few studios controlling everything. Less competition means worse movies and higher prices for all of us. Regulators need to stop this.