The has established some restrictions on media-outlet ownership by any single company in order to avoid in any one market. Otherwise, one media giant might be able to own all the newspapers and TV and radio stations in a region, effectively stifling any competition and potentially providing a single voice for information where several voices serve a democracy better. Additionally, the is involved in legislation, governing mergers between companies and further discouraging monopolies from forming. However, in recent years, increasing the reduction or removal of government restrictions on the media industry, has allowed companies to gain control of ever-larger chunks of the media market