Warning that a deal for DirecTV gives At&T too much power to stifle the Internet's growth as a cable alternative, Christopher Keyser, the president of the Writers Guild of America West, on Tuesday urged members of a panel of the Senate Judiciary Committee to do all they can to kill it. “Because the power to control the pipeline actually trumps the power to create, it brings with it the power to undermine the revolutionary power of the internet itself,” Keyser told senators. He said that At&T's deal together with Comcast's for Time Warner Cable would give two companies more than.
- 6/25/2014
- by Ira Teinowitz
- The Wrap
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