AT&T/Time Warner facing wave of conservative opposition
“These headline-grabbing, political objections” likely won’t have a big role in the DOJ analysis, said Joe Kane, R Street Institute technology policy associate. With wide diversity of viewpoints and online ability to disseminate one’s own, objections “that certain viewpoints are going to be stamped out [are] a little odd,” Kane said. He and others predicted AT&T/TW likely will be approved with conditions along the lines of Comcast/NBCUniversal. Given the current political environment, “it would be silly to say there won’t be more politically based opposition — from both the right and the left,” said Free State Foundation President Randolph May Tuesday. AT&T said it still expects the deal to close by year’s end.
