[ivanmontillam]

If the spirit of the antitrust law is to protect consumers from enshittification, then yes.

But as written to the letter of the law, no, as this would not create a monopoly. More consolidation yes, but a monopoly technically not.

[lenerdenator]

Given that the whole point is to prevent consolidation that is to the detriment of consumers, well, yeah.

[ivanmontillam]

yeah, but who's to say Fox is gonna screw up this one?

Like the government saying: "Sorry Fox, you cannot have this one, this one is too good for your dinosaur management."

Since that's a very dangerous government hand meddling, I guess the correct move is to let it happen (to our liking or not).

[lenerdenator]

> yeah, but who's to say Fox is gonna screw up this one?

I mean... gestures widely