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shimmanyesterday at 10:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

You really think Paramount cares about the IP and not just controlling the platforms to wield political power?


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techblueberrytoday at 12:17 AM

Walk me through the argument of how they do that or why this is worth $100 billion. Everyone is worried about them owning CNN, but CNN was dying. Their takeover of CBS was a Flubb. I think you could make the argument that part of the reason Trump won was the perception that liberals controlled all media. Change that perception in America, and I think our contrarian nature drives people into the arms of Democrats.

Mindwipeyesterday at 10:26 PM

Yes, 100%.

If they wanted the policial platforms and had offered to buy them from Warner as standalone for a tenth of the cost Warner would have snapped their hand off.

They need the IP for scale. That is what this is about.