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Break up the cable monopolies? Democrats propose new competition laws

Senate and House Democratic leaders today proposed new antitrust laws that could prevent many of the biggest mergers and break up ... monopolies" lists five industries that Democrats say are in ... read more

Democrats are slamming cable and telecom companies in their new ‘Better Deal’ platform

Democrats are taking cable and telecom companies to task over what many consumers have long bemoaned: rising prices and a lack of competition ... of antitrust laws and a push against corporate ... read more

Do We Need to Break Up Facebook?

A Warren administration would “suck for us,” he said in leaked audio of a July meeting, referring to Ms. Warren’s proposal to break up big tech companies ... It is a powerful monopoly, eclipsing all ... read more

Momentum grows to break up big tech, as Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple face scrutiny

Last month, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes laid into CEO Mark Zuckerberg with a nearly 6,000-word New York Times op-ed that sounded the alarm on the social network's alleged monopoly ... competition ... read more

Our View: Local cable access in need of support

Cable providers have always had a monopoly in this ... a Dedham Democrat, has proposed leveling a 5% fee on those services, with part of the revenue going to community access television stations. read more

EDITORIAL: Legislation could help community access cable stations

Cable providers have always had a monopoly in this ... a Dedham Democrat, has proposed levying a 5% fee on those services, with part of the revenue going to community access television stations. read more

Our view: FCC ruling does a disservice to community access

Cable providers have always had a monopoly in this ... a Dedham Democrat, has proposed leveling a 5% fee on those services, with part of the revenue going to community access television stations. read more

“A Better Deal”? Dissecting the Democrats’ “Populist” Turn in Rhetoric and Reality

Finally, there is the Democrats’ anti-monopoly proposal. In his editorial in the New York Times, Schumer writes: “Right now our antitrust laws ... cable bills and airline tickets to food and health ... read more

Break Up Big Tech? Some Say Not So Fast

House Democrats, meanwhile, are launching an antitrust probe of their own over competition in the tech ... are skeptical that using antitrust laws to break up Big Tech—at least in the way that has ... read more

'It will be fascinating': Silicon Valley faces an antitrust reckoning

But maybe they're trying to make new law.” The big tech companies have rejected the notion that they are monopolies or anti-competitive ... response among tech critics on Capitol Hill, with some ... read more

Warren Takes on Comcast So You Don't Have To

Warren's speech at a forum on monopolies came as part of her advocacy for greater enforcement of antitrust laws as American consumers pay higher prices for cable and Internet services ... to force the ... read more

It’s not just banks anymore. Democrats want to break up all kinds of big business.

The pitch for stricter enforcement of antitrust laws ... competition in their industry. For the biggest deals, the merging corporations' lawyers would have to persuade a judge that merging would be ... read more