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by clooless 2102 days ago
It's easy to say that now in hindsight. Wasn't that clear back then.
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Of course. But it strengthens the argument. The govt's job is not to guess what might happen or how the market will react to new technology. It should only intervene as a last resort, when there is absolutely no market-based solution possible. It wasn't like the AT&T antitrust suit, where the defendant had existed, mostly unchanged, for 50 or so years.
The antitrust suit is a big part of why the web succeeded to the extent it did.