Comcast / NBC merger is crap - editorial opinion included if you couldn't tell from the word crap

I'm going to go off, sorry stop reading if that bugs you.

I don't care what your political persuasions are, I think we can all agree that "too big to fail" was crap, No one likes bailing out giant corporations on the tax payer dollar, well no one but those who benefit from it. People have all sorts of ideas on how to regulate business to address the issues. Maybe that works, maybe it doesn't. My personal belief is that it doesn't, because the regulators can't get the regulations right, because they are two steps behind industry, things change too fast, and there are always loopholes.

What does work, is to not allow the companies too get so big in the first place. Regulation is hard, breaking companies up is hard, but not allowing them to get too big, create monopolies, screw the consumers, etc, etc, is really not that hard. All you have to do is say, "nope sorry, not going to do it". Show some god damn backbone and say no, you squirrelly, on the pay, stupid, ignorant, non-visionary, self serving bureaucrats and politicians.

The fact that only one guy seems to think this was even a bad idea completely escapes me. This goes well beyond this deal or net-neutrality, its a big problem. From the day we gave the corporation the same rights as the individual we made a colossal mistake of epic proportions, and as we allow them to get more and more power that crosses international barriers and laughs in the face of government and the consumer, we pretty much destroy our freedom. I mean freedom in terms of creating and maintaining personal wealth. Allowing monopolies, horizontally, vertically, in the 3rd dimension, is bad. Bad, bad, bad. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out.

This for me, it is a big strike against this administration. Its totally clear that neither the left nor right has any idea what's going on, gives two craps, or is able to do anything about it. I'm not saying they did in the past administration either, trust me, hated those bastards too, probably even more.

I'm a small government guy. I believe the government, especially federal government, has a pretty limited set of responsibilities. For me, this is one of them. They need to regulate interstate commerce, and make sure there is a level and fair playing field. Capitalism, really needs that, the people need that. Get it right, don't screw this up. Its not hard. You just don't allow them to merge, end of story. No 2000 page documents, nothing complicated, just deny it, and fight it. If you swing more to the left, I think you'd end up in a similar place as me, but maybe with a different justification. That's ok. How we get there doesn't matter, lets just agree monopolies are bad, and too big too fail is bad.

Glad to see a lot of other folks pissed off about this, check out the following thread:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/19/0032229/Comcast-NBC-Merger-Approved-By-FCC?from=rss