content: Since the governments claim control over the entire telecommunications spectrum - and they also grant companies service monopolies ( a special economic privilege,)  within that spectrum, the government also has a legal duty to oversee the operations of the service providers, to ensure acceptable public standards are met.  This is normally not an issue. However, when you get regimes such as the Obama admin, who make themselves susceptible to regulatory capture (see bribery,) then the entire administrative framework breaks down, because the enforcement agency, the government, then becomes a protection racket for the criminals... to the detriment of the public.  Classic mafia tactics.  However, now this opens the door for customers to sue the FCC directly for failure to police the system.  Because the FCC claims enforcement authority over the spectrum - they also receive the ultimate legal responsibility to see the job is done.  Effectively, the buck must now stop at the FCC.   So the FCC will be forced to step in, and they might deservedly toss Time Warner to the wolves - but I doubt that will happen.