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Big telecommunications monopolies - many of whom now seek to be content providers as well - shouldn't be able to price others out of…

— Maya Wiley

“Every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for. Try to imagine what it would cost at market…

— Cory Doctorow

While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted…

— Lawrence Lessig

Our obligation is to preserve competition and make sure that mergers are not unlawfully lessening competition.

— Lina Khan

Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for…

— Julius Genachowski

Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?

— Henry Manne

It's no surprise to me personally that monopolists, and executives associated with monopolies, would prefer that the anti-monopoly cops just go away. But that's…

— Lina Khan

Charter's merger sales pitch is pretty straightforward: it argues that it has always been too small to bully Internet companies, TV makers, and its…

— Marvin Ammori

You will never ever, in any circumstance, win any struggle at any time. That being said, we have a long way to go. At…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that…

— Alan Greenspan

It's time to use the antitrust laws and to break up this conglomerate corporate media that has now poisoned our democracy to the point…

— Jill Stein

When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop.

— Mitch Kapor