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elements-8818	Tune, Harrison	Positive Law vs. Good Intentions: The Legality of the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger	2015	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3914	170	53	It is also worth noting that extensive and reactionary government involvement in areas such as ISP markets should be ad- vised against because of the dangerous precedent and in- centives that could be established as a result. As per antitrust statutes, this proposed transaction is cur- rently under review by the U.S. Department of Justice, which is responsible for the regulation of mergers that substantially limit competition in a given market.1 The De- partment of Justice considers two primary aspects con- cerning horizontal mergers — the lessening of competi- tion and the over-consolidation of market share that confers a monopoly.2 In the case of the merger submitted by the Applicants (Comcast Corporation and Time Warner Cable, Inc.), the Department of Justice considers the change in competi- tion caused when two companies in the same market merge and the increased market share they will control as both a Multichannel Video Programming Distributor (MVPD) and an Internet Service Provider (ISP).	cache/elements-8818.pdf	txt/elements-8818.txt