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In reply to the discussion: FoxNews has to be dismantled [View all]Cirsium
(3,813 posts)Dismantling Fox News is an anti-trust issue, not the First Amendment. Opposition to that position comes mostly from the right wing.
The First Amendment does not exempt businesses from anti-trust action, according to one of the most stalwart defenders of the First Amendment ever, Justice William O. Douglas.
FDR understood that the new "economic royalists" had become the greater threat to freedom, and that the government was the proper tool for remedying that - on behalf of the working class people. That is a key distinction that all Democrats should embrace, in my opinion. Citing the law as though it were neutral is definitely anti-working class, especially now with the domination of all aspects of our lives by monopoly capitalism and the corruption of the government by monopolists.