The Extortion Economy: The Netflix-WBD Merger as a Case Study in Crony Capitalism Abstract This manifesto asserts that the current administration’s threatened "mega scrutiny" of the pending $72 billion Netflix-Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) merger constitutes a performative act of re...

Merger approval is now currency.

Netflix-WBD’s $72B deal shows how DOJ “scrutiny” is weaponized as extortion. Corporate survival = regime loyalty.

This is crony capitalism masquerading as law. Resist normalization.

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