[clintonh8r]

This merger isn’t nearly as anti-competition as the Comcast/NBCU/Time-Warner leviathan. Comcast will have unprecedented control over delivery, pricing and content, all while delivering the industry’s absolute worst customer service and technical competence.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

This merger isn’t nearly as anti-competition as the Comcast/NBCU/Time-Warner leviathan.

It's all anti-competitive - crony capitalism conducted between Obama's golfing pals at Martha's Vineyard. Comcast is demanding additional fees from service providers like Netflix who compete with Comcast's own services, and at the same time is trialing data caps for customers who use competing services like Netflix - so Comcast gets paid twice for the same data. Needless to say, such caps will not apply to Comcast's own services, and there's no reason Comcast shouldn't decide to expand to social media and announce that Facebook needs to pay additional fees. I can't think of a more certain way to destroy Internet innovation and value to end-users.

If Southern California Edison not only supplied power but also manufactured electrical appliances and could mandate that electrical appliances made by GE will mean additional charges both to GE and to you, while their own appliances are subject to no additional fees, we'd arrive at pretty much the same scenario US ISPs have created for themselves.