• jsgohac
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    4 years ago

    I know many people love HBO, but it would be nice to see some other alternative arise to this entity owned by the AT&T beast.

    On October 22, 2016, AT&T announced an offer to acquire Time Warner for $108.7 billion (including assumed Time Warner debt). The proposed merger was confirmed on June 12, 2018,after AT&T won an antitrust lawsuit that the U.S. Justice Department filed in 2017 to attempt to block the acquisition.[9] The merger closed two days later, with the company becoming a subsidiary of AT&T. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarnerMedia)

    Example EFF suit against ATT: https://www.eff.org/document/scott-v-att-geolocation-complaint

    EFF is now suing AT&T for selling this data without users’ consent and for misleading the public about its privacy practices