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It sounds like an informal description of the idea of government regulation of natural monopolies. Such regulation is very popular for things like municipal wat
by baddox 11y ago
It sounds like an informal description of the idea of government regulation of natural monopolies. Such regulation is very popular for things like municipal water and electricity infrastructure, but I haven't seen a good argument for why the Internet search engine market would be a natural monopoly.
- superuser2 11y agoI still have electrical service. Regulating an industry is different from preventing anyone from operating (effectively) in it - that's just the pathological failure case of poorly thought out regulation, not generally the goal.