The 1st amendment does not ensure the rights of media companies to be so large they cancel out other media companies. The FCC is failing us here.
The Associated Press is too big and too powerful. The tech giants are too big, and too powerful. Even dinosaur media, NBC, CBS, and ABC are too big and too powerful.
Many of these news outlets are conveniently owned by a handful of Hollywood studios. It is time to break these up.
America needs a mass demonopolization. These companies are becoming their own governments.
Here's how you get rid of them... QUIT FUCKING WATCHING THEM. CANCEL YOUR TV SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Collectively conservatives, through TV bundling or whatever, are giving these scumbag media companies BILLIONS a year. All the while they sit there shitting on us for ratings. Fuck 'em. Don't watch.
I'm sorry, it's not that simple. Do you have comcast? You are giving NBC money. Do you watch Jurassic Park? You are giving NBC money.
Somehow, during the Reagan years, it became taboo for conservatives to want to limit or even regulate business.
Now we have Amazon, and even if you don't purchase a damn thing on Amazon, over 33% of the internet is warehoused in their cloud.
What you are suggesting is the equivalent of "build your own platform". Never mind that web hosts are pressured regularly to take down entire platforms that don't fit the mold.