Customers say Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger is evil

Everyone seems to hate their cable company, and news that Comcast wants to buy Time Warner Cable isn't going over well. Customers of both are trying to out-do each other, warning of high prices, slow data speeds and miserable customer service.

On Twitter, the knee jerk reaction was almost unanimously negative. "Sweet. We will never have affordable, high-speed internet in this country," said Allen Christopher of Winston-Salem (NC). "In what way is this not a catastrophe for competition in an industry that is already terrible for consumers?" asked Benjamin Harrison of Brooklyn (NY). David Hoang in Seattle put it best: "Comcast acquiring Time Warner Cable is like Nickelback and Creed deciding to go on tour together." In 2013, the American Consumer Satisfaction Index ranked both companies' television and Internet services the lowest in the nation.