Wait, is the government actually going to do something about this?
At this phase, conventional wisdom will tell you that the Trump Administration is probably not going to use the force of the government to shoot down Netflix’s effort to acquire the core studio and streaming assets of Warner Bros. Discovery.
However, with South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott now signaling antitrust concerns in a letter to Trump’s regulators, according to Semafor, it’s now plausible to say there is real pushback. Semafor quotes the letter as saying there are “significant antitrust problems” with the deal, and that it harms “moviegoers, on-camera talent, writers, producers, and everyone who loves the entertainment industry.
