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byjonwil ( 467024 ) writes:
What happens to Warner Bros if regulators say no to both Netflix and Paramount? Would Warner Bros be able to survive?
bysound+vision ( 884283 ) writes:
What happens is someone buys a few million Trumpcoin, cancels a bothersome comedian or reporter, and suddenly the deal is approved.
byjonwil ( 467024 ) writes:
Even trump cant force the EU to approve this deal if they say no...
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bysound+vision ( 884283 ) writes:
Why is what the EU thinks relevant? Even if these were European companies, the TikTok treatment could be applied, until they were no longer European companies (or no longer operating in the US.)
byjonwil ( 467024 ) writes:
All 3 companies (Warner Bros, Paramount and Netflix) have subsidiaries in various EU countries and are most definitely subject to EU competition laws. Whether the EU blocks things outright, imposes conditions or allows it to sail right through is the question.
bysound+vision ( 884283 ) writes:
And why wouldn't the TikTok treatment work to force them to divest those subsidiaries?
bywilliamyf ( 227051 ) writes:
Why is what the EU thinks relevant?
I am not sure paramount, or netflix, or warner would like to stop operating in the EU. Which is what would happen if the EU regulators said no, and they went on with a merger anyway... ditto for the UK, japan, india, korea, brazil or china....
bysound+vision ( 884283 ) writes:
They can be forced to withdraw from one or more markets.
You're stuck in last year's free trade paradigm. Now, the paradigm is Iron Curtain.
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