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> I would be flabbergasted if the regulators looked at the rest of the world and decided to allow this sale.

I'd love for you to be right, but if I were you, I'd prepare to be flabbergasted.

i suspect it will be allowed to go-ahead, the government at all levels seems to like to support the telecommunication monopolies. Municipal and community internet alternatives, or competition, seem to be inhibited by regulation and bureaucracy. There is such a barrier of entry and regulation on cable provisioning that it's hard to see how anyone can compete, and if they do, it's got to be someone the size of Google who have their own agenda.

http://consumerist.com/2014/05/10/why-starting-a-competitor-...

http://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-jus...

if I join the dots myself, I see a clear benefit to the U.S. government and the NSA in monopolies like this.

A couple of years back, this would have been tin foil hat territory. But not today.

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