Let us buy Time Warner Cable, Comcast argues, and our generous adherence to largely meaningless net neutrality rules will cover more people, benefitting everyone.
I know the article paraphrases what Comcast said but if they said something even remotely implying "benefiting everyone", why would they say that? Haven't carriers argued against net neutrality by saying the rules actually hurt consumers? Why are they offering adherence to defunct rules as a merger concession if their past argument is that such these rules actually hurt consumers?