Law360, New York (September 17, 2014, 4:26 PM EDT) -- The American Antitrust Institute told the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday that Comcast Corp.'s proposed $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable Inc. could harm access and competition from content providers such as Netflix Inc., urging the agency to block the deal. In a letter to William J. Baer, the head of the DOJ’s antitrust division, the AAI argued that if the deal were allowed to go through, the merged Comcast-Time Warner company might to use its gatekeeping power to restrict competition from upstream rivals. These rivals include “edge” providers, such as online video distributors like Netflix and Hulu, which compete...

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