Petitions Against AT&T/TW Net 115,000 Signatures, Opponents Say
Petitions by public interest groups Free Press, Credo Action and Demand Progress netted more than 115,000 signatures in opposition to AT&T's buying Time Warner, Demand Progress said in a news release Wednesday. All three petitions -- here, here and here…
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-- ask policymakers to stop the transaction because of the concentration of economic and political power that would result and the lack of consumer benefit. DOJ suing AT&T's DirecTV over another issue Wednesday became another thorn in the side of the telco buying TW (see 1611020034). Some on Capitol Hill remain concerned (see 1611020036).