Via Techdirt:
Comcast faces obvious regulatory and public relation obstacles in getting its $45.2 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable approved, given concerns about vertical integration and scale. Comcast last week got a running start on selling the deal to regulators by insisting that allowing them to get absurdly massive would somehow be "pro-consumer." Comcast's other big argument last week appeared to be the idea that the larger company couldn't possibly use its larger size as anti-competitive leverage, because Google Fiber (with all of its 1,000 or so users) and Hulu (which Comcast co-owns) would...