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[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 28 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Except these are more than just content companies. They are empires with tons of shell companies and child companies under their roof.

And it giving any company that much control of a market is a death sentence. If they begin to crash, the entire economy around that will crash. And it will ripple.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

And yet, a combined Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery would only be a tiny fraction of the size of Disney.