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I don't think government agencies are at all concerned with 'stifling of innovation'. I don't think your average intelligent person is at all concerned with it,

I don't think government agencies are at all concerned with 'stifling of innovation'. I don't think your average intelligent person is at all concerned with it, let alone everyone else. Regulation (invasive action is general) is for when enough people are really unhappy. Who's unhappy in this instance? The innovators?

ethbro 9y ago
Society in general, when Facebook and Google becomes the next ATT and all innovation much be funnelled through (and approved by) them. The issue with monopolies (e.g. ATT in the Ma Bell days) is not that they're intrinsically evil, but that they're terrible at allowing innovations to reach the market.