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GaryBlutotoday at 12:27 PM4 repliesview on HN

I wonder if an antitrust suit will be filed, this seems like a pretty significant acquisition.


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this_usertoday at 12:41 PM

With the current administration, anything can be legal.

Besides, they still have plans to spin off the cable networks, so this would mostly concern the streaming assets, movie studio, and the IP.

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embedding-shapetoday at 12:29 PM

Considering the words they're using across the announcement, it seems they're well aware what this will trigger, everything seems carefully chosen so someone can later point at this announcement and say "See, we think this will add MORE user choice, not less, which is good for competition!".

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matt_stoday at 12:49 PM

How is this any bigger than Disney and all the media channels they own?

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fatata123today at 12:56 PM

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