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AT&T Claims It Won’t Scale Back Its ‘DEI Initiatives’ To Please Trump, Despite Having Just Scaled Back Its DEI Initiatives To Please Trump
We recently noted how U.S. telecom giant Verizon was more than happy to kiss Trump’s ass in exchange for FCC approval of its $20 billion merger with Frontier. That included quickly kowtowing …
On one hand, with a merger approval pending at the FCC, Stankey could have easily followed Verizon’s lead and behaved like a feckless coward. Again, I’m not sure AT&T’s doing anything particularly courageous here, but with a merger awaiting approval the company could have followed Verizon’s route and simply become a spineless pumpkin operating in blind fealty to a bunch of weird, authoritarian zealots. AT&T lawyers and executives know that the trajectory we’re on ultimately ensures that nobody can tell AT&T what to do on any subject, whether it’s racism, taxpayer fraud, anti-consumer protection efforts, or its longstanding quest to crush competition underfoot.
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