> big internet companies are the utilities of today IMO this is a dangerous conflation. Many large internet companies are monopolies. Anti-trust mechanisms sh

> big internet companies are the utilities of today IMO this is a dangerous conflation. Many large internet companies are monopolies. Anti-trust mechanisms should be used to force competitive market places. But there are substantive differences between being the far-and-away best option in a competitive market place, and the sorts of things we typically call utilities. This comment on a story about Shopify is even more disturbing. Amazon or Facebook or Google... okay. But Shopify?! Nothing about Shopify is utility-like. Shopify isn't even a monopoly, let alone a natural one.