[hvb2]

You might want to read the 3rd paragraph of this article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merger_of_Skydance_Media_and_P...

Read that timeline and then see if you're still convinced that they didn't at least seem to have done a thing or 2 to appease the federal government

[throwaway27448]

Of course, but that's business. Authoritarianism would imply a conflict unresolvable outside of state violence.

[hvb2]

If you think that's business, wherever you are is a place where I don't want to live.

Yes, companies do have to do things in order to appease regulators. But typically that's where a regulator says what they need them to do and then they oblige. Those requests usually involve market power and such, and splitting off part of the company. They don't involve the actual content/product of said company