Lately, Wheeler has taken steps intended to create new opportunities for streaming media companies and to shield them from businesses that have an incentive to harm them. For example, one reason the FCC has cited for blocking Comcast’s merger with Time Warner Cable is the potential threat that a united company would pose to online video. The idea, officials have said, is that such a large combined company would be able to use its dominance in broadband to force streaming companies — who can’t get to consume
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