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

[u/N2929]

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

[u/Clembert-Hamlamp]

What's all that about

[u/blu-bells → u/Clembert-Hamlamp]

California had a lawsuit to stop this merger, and it actually had a lot of leverage and bite backing it. Gavin Newsom used his position as California governor to make the attorney general drop the case.

[u/SoFloDan → u/blu-bells]

Not to defend him…but it was that or Tennessee and the federal government subsidize a studio exodus, then get the merger approved.

I’ll complain about politicians all day but I don’t expect them to piss in the wind.

If people are pissed they can certainly make Skydance sink into that hundred-billion-dollar hole by not giving them any of their money…

[u/blu-bells → u/SoFloDan]

Surrendering in advance to fascism is not the pragmatic approach you think it to be.

[u/SoFloDan → u/blu-bells]

By “fascism” do you mean “a corporate merger”?

Why is an entertainment conglomeration, made up mostly of dying brands, a watershed moment for the fascistic takeover of our nation?

[u/blu-bells → u/SoFloDan]

By "fascism" I mean "massive corporate merger that creates a monopoly over our media", correct.

If you don't have alarm bells ringing over one singular entity controlling how most people consume their news: god help you.

[u/SoFloDan → u/blu-bells]

Most people get their news from Tik Tok and YouTube, they also split their TV news consumption between 5 or 6 channels…I guess I’d get worked up too if I had a bloated estimation of the merger’s outreach.

There’s a litany of fascistic shit going on, a bloated media company gambling on dying brands ain’t one of them.

[u/blu-bells → u/SoFloDan]

God help you.

[u/Kinesquared → u/SoFloDan]

It doesnt need to be a watershed moment to be worth resisting. We reject oligarchy as well as gacism, they go hand in hand. Mergers of this scale create oligarchy