Sherman Antitrust Act Of 1980: A Case Study

In the question of ethics being regulated or over-regulated I would have to chose the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1980 as under regulated. The Sherman Antitrust act of 1980 was introduced to prevent monopolies ( Ferrell, Fraedrick, & Ferrell, 2013). The unsteady merging of companies is a sure sign of monopolies to come;for example, “The FCC and the DOJ approved the the 88 billion dollar merger of charter communications with Time Warner Cable and a smaller rival company Bright House Networks, creating the second largest broadband provider in the United States” (Selyukh, 2016).

Currently cable television is seeing a decline in clientele, with the option of online television such as Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon prime consumers are no longer tied