UPDATE: Free Press has a petition to protest the merger on the grounds that it's a return to the Ma Bell Monopoly. I recommend signing.

So that thing with five CEOs with devil horns who want to privatize the internet by violating the principle of network neutrality and breaking the end-to-end nature of TCP/IP... well, now it's four companies, if the fatbacks get their way.

Mergers are often how the greedheads respond to competition. Ganging up. It's worked since grade school so why stop now?