[fpgeek]

Let's suppose that one of those online services had been owned by an unrestrained, pre-breakup AT&T (as would have been the case without the government intervention see as unnecessary).

Who here thinks that the open Internet would still have obviously and inevitably won?

[rbarooah]

What exactly are you comparing to an unrestrained, pre-breakup AT&T? I'm not aware of any modern equivalent.