I may be lambasted for saying this, but I do not believe that Fox (or any large media company, really) should be permitted to purchase direct access to the TV hardware of roughly 30-50% of american households.
We have antitrust laws in the US but they do us absolutely no good when the government refuses to even consider enforcing them, which seems to be the case in the past few decades.
You mean via executive order? That's not exactly passing a law.
The whole dance is really effective at keeping the administration one or two steps ahead of the judiciary and legislative branch.
It's also more or less true that the Biden administration took more responsibility and initiative in antitrust enforcement:
https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/10/02/biden-ftc-antitrust-...
https://rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-biden-administration...
An extensive study [0], showed "Basically, average citizens only get what they want if economic elites or interest groups also want it"
They studied actual attitudes about issues, moneyed attitudes, and tracked what got implemented as laws. NONE of the 'thinking, protesting, commenting, of demanding' was effective. MONEY was.
[0] https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-...
And proportional representation is found in the House of Representatives. We have a bicameral legislature.
This is a just-so-story. No matter how much people care you can always say they don’t care enough when the law doesn’t match what people want - and when the law does match it’s because they cared enough, no matter how much they actually cared.
In practice, the laws don’t match what people want.
But all that aside - the laws already exist to block this acquisition, the only thing that’s missing is enforcement.
How is that proportional, a century of pop growth later?
As if the will of the people is what matters... Only if those people are backed by money does matter. I don't agree with that, but that's the world we live in.