Malone reportedly shuns the limelight and glamorous lifestyle and takes his family vacations alongside longtime friend Gary Biskup, in a recreational vehicle.However, in business dealings he has been dubbed "Darth Vader", a nickname allegedly given to him by Al Gore when Malone was the head of TCI, where he demanded equity positions in cable programming services in return for carriage, and attempted to defeat the must-carry rules which protected broadcasters, a battle which the cable industry eventually lost in 1997 in the U.S. Supreme Court.In 1994, Wired portrayed Malone on their cover as "Mad Max" from The Road Warrior, with an interview describing his battles with the FCC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Malone
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