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Thank you for you commitment to choice and competition! Your comments have now been filed with the FCC, urging the Commission to realize that a merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable will be damaging to consumers.
Now you can call the FCC at 888-225-5322 and tell them to say no to Comcast/Time Warner Cable.
Chairman Tom Wheeler
The Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger should be blocked by the FCC. This is an unprecedented consolidation of the Internet marketplace that would be detrimental to consumers, competition, and the entire Internet ecosystem.
Comcast and Time Warner Cable produce programming as well as provide distribution. After buying Time Warner Cable, Comcast’s ability and incentive to discriminate in favor of its own programming and online services would increase, as well as Comcast’s power to decide how video is distributed online.
Approving this merger even with conditions would not be an effective way to regulate the many harms that Comcast could cause with this level of market control and influence in pay TV, programming, advertising, and other markets. Conditions will eventually expire, even while the harms they exist to mitigate persist.
The FCC should block this merger completely and continue to encourage competition, not consolidation.
Commissioner Mignon Clyburn
The Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger should be blocked by the FCC. This is an unprecedented consolidation of the Internet marketplace that would be detrimental to consumers, competition, and the entire Internet ecosystem.
Comcast and Time Warner Cable produce programming as well as provide distribution. After buying Time Warner Cable, Comcast’s ability and incentive to discriminate in favor of its own programming and online services would increase, as well as Comcast’s power to decide how video is distributed online.
Approving this merger even with conditions would not be an effective way to regulate the many harms that Comcast could cause with this level of market control and influence in pay TV, programming, advertising, and other markets. Conditions will eventually expire, even while the harms they exist to mitigate persist.
The FCC should block this merger completely and continue to encourage competition, not consolidation.
Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel
The Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger should be blocked by the FCC. This is an unprecedented consolidation of the Internet marketplace that would be detrimental to consumers, competition, and the entire Internet ecosystem.
Comcast and Time Warner Cable produce programming as well as provide distribution. After buying Time Warner Cable, Comcast’s ability and incentive to discriminate in favor of its own programming and online services would increase, as well as Comcast’s power to decide how video is distributed online.
Approving this merger even with conditions would not be an effective way to regulate the many harms that Comcast could cause with this level of market control and influence in pay TV, programming, advertising, and other markets. Conditions will eventually expire, even while the harms they exist to mitigate persist.
The FCC should block this merger completely and continue to encourage competition, not consolidation.
Commissioner Ajit Pai
The Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger should be blocked by the FCC. This is an unprecedented consolidation of the Internet marketplace that would be detrimental to consumers, competition, and the entire Internet ecosystem.
Comcast and Time Warner Cable produce programming as well as provide distribution. After buying Time Warner Cable, Comcast’s ability and incentive to discriminate in favor of its own programming and online services would increase, as well as Comcast’s power to decide how video is distributed online.
Approving this merger even with conditions would not be an effective way to regulate the many harms that Comcast could cause with this level of market control and influence in pay TV, programming, advertising, and other markets. Conditions will eventually expire, even while the harms they exist to mitigate persist.
The FCC should block this merger completely and continue to encourage competition, not consolidation.
Commissioner Michael O'Reilly
The Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger should be blocked by the FCC. This is an unprecedented consolidation of the Internet marketplace that would be detrimental to consumers, competition, and the entire Internet ecosystem.
Comcast and Time Warner Cable produce programming as well as provide distribution. After buying Time Warner Cable, Comcast’s ability and incentive to discriminate in favor of its own programming and online services would increase, as well as Comcast’s power to decide how video is distributed online.
Approving this merger even with conditions would not be an effective way to regulate the many harms that Comcast could cause with this level of market control and influence in pay TV, programming, advertising, and other markets. Conditions will eventually expire, even while the harms they exist to mitigate persist.
The FCC should block this merger completely and continue to encourage competition, not consolidation.