[roughly]

> "the antitrust restriction was no longer necessary as the old model could never be recreated in contemporary settings"

For some reason* everyone seems to think monopolism was this quaint thing of the past, and not the thing that every market everywhere sprints towards as fast as the technology of the era will allow without some kind of restraint or regulation.

(*"deeply motivated ideological reasoning")

[taylodl]

It's almost as though the "free market" tries as hard as it can to not be free.