At some point, the American people are going to conclude, for the sake of their privacy and security, that we can’t let this much power be concentrated into the hands of a few arrogant, irresponsible, and, frankly, neglectful, individuals and their companies. This isn’t just corporate malfeasance causing harm to individuals; this is malfeasance that jeopardize our economic and even national security.
In Part One of our series, we considered the curious partisan political inversion around the proposed AT&T-Time Warner deal, as Donald Trump has come out noisily in opposition, while Hillary Clinton seems quietly supportive. In Part Two, we introduced our guest-expert, the Great Trustbuster himself, Theodore Roosevelt, who explained that the history of the Republican Party’s antitrust policy is more complex than most people realize. Now, in Part Three, we will press Roosevelt for a specific opinion on the AT&T-Time Warner deal, and he will expand on his quantity-vs.-quality theory of regulation.
Two big corporations, AT&T (worth $221 billion at last count) and Time Warner (worth $66 billon), want to combine to become even bigger, and yet in response, the two major American political parties are not to be found in their usual ideological positions.
In a wide-ranging interview with Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM, nationally syndicated radio talk show host Michael Savage described tech giants like Facebook and Google “mini-fascist states that crush opposition viewpoints.”
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reacted to a report that the Washington Post has 20 reporters planning to dig into his life by arguing Post owner Jeff Bezos is using the paper “or political purposes to save Amazon, in terms of
