There was a reason many years ago, in a time forgotten by most, this country decided that they needed to have laws to use on monopolies, that had teeth and could be vigorously enforced. The country had seen the slavery and feudal system that letting the most ruthless people have no restraints caused.
While the result was not perfect, it is responsible for why there is still a middle class today.
Unfortunately the new masters convinced the "freedom loving" types that they should all be happy to be slaves again, just so long as some multi national corporation run by some power mad autocrat is the one doing the enslaving.
You think the news media is bad now, well a lot of that is because they change the laws to allow a small handful of people to own all the news media outlets instead of having strict limits on how far any individual person's / corporation's reach could be.
Go on and on all you want about "private companies" they are NOT "Private" they are multi national corporations that are actively and openly working on making the world bend to their will.
We long ago decided that we could not build a society based on the law of the jungle and generally all agreed that everybody needed to have limits to what they can and could not do in order for everybody to be able to progress.
Why do the "freedom loving" types seem to think that corporate types should be somehow exempt from having to follow rules in their conduct that society decides needs to be put into place to keep freedom and fair commerce in place?