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date: '2018-06-13'
title: 'Consolidation swiftly follows the death of net neutrality'
description: 'Combined with the death of net neutrality, the U.S. is creating a very uncertain future where a handful of companies now dominate everything from local sports and news broadcasts to broadband, with few rules or guidelines preventing price gouging, predatory practices, and routinely anti-competitive behavior.'
draft: false
tags: ['politics', 'net neutrality']
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**[Comcast eyes Fox takeover](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyk3xb/comcast-21st-century-fox-merger-net-neutrality)**

> Combined with the death of net neutrality, the U.S. is creating a very uncertain future where a handful of companies now dominate everything from local sports and news broadcasts to broadband, with few rules or guidelines preventing price gouging, predatory practices, and routinely anti-competitive behavior.<!-- excerpt -->

**[AT&T wins approval for Time Warner merger](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xmm5z/att-time-warner-merger-consumer-protection)**

> ... But when AT&T owns not only the content coming to your home, but the wireless and fixed-line connections this content travels over--higher prices are only part of the problem. With the death of net neutrality, AT&T has been given a green light to abuse this power to disadvantage competitors in an ocean of new, obnoxiously-creative ways.