[pjc50]

Yup. In the UK and many other places we had "local loop unbundling", allowing ISP competition for price and service. The UK lacks this, resulting in more expensive worse consumer internet in a lot of places.

It's becoming clear that we might need to "unbundle" the other end of the loop. Although that's much harder to even define. Trying to mandate the Fediverse is a pretty extreme technical and social challenge in the first place, let alone when billions of dollars are at stake.

A small thing might be to replicate the US approach to movies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic.... : allow services to be either content producers or content aggregators but not both, and enforce non-discriminatory licensing of content. I.e. if Netflix pays Paramount $X for a series, any other streaming service should have the right to also buy it for $X at the same time.