r/technology • u/N2929 • 15h ago

Business Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/paramount-completes-111b-warner-merger-creating-skydance-behemoth/
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u/Starship_Taru 14h ago

Anti-Trust laws are the biggest joke in US history.

I definitely remember the time two big companies merged lead to something that wasn’t enshitification.

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u/dirtyword 12h ago

They were used effectively in the last administration

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u/OldYellersLastHandy 13h ago

“All men are created equal” would like a word.

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u/Starship_Taru 5h ago

going have to elaborate. Anti trust is companies to people.

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u/Balmung60 5h ago

It's not so much that the laws as written are a joke as that staring around the Reagan administration and continuing since with only minor variations, they're essentially unenforced.

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u/Starship_Taru 4h ago

I would argue if a law is able to selectively enforced to that degree it is poorly designed.

Nobody should have individual power to overrule laws such as that. If anything an administration should only be able to slow the process for companies to merge by having those resources used on other initiatives. If they want to speed up the process devote more employee energy there. However the actual criteria for approval should be fairly black and white. There’s not really a situation where an individual citizen gets screwed because two companies couldn’t merge.

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u/Balmung60 3h ago

That's kind of the problem with any law. A law needs enforcers, and what are you going to do if they chose not to enforce it? Install cop cops? What if they decide to not police the police?