> The more independently operating companies there are operating their own cables, the more room there is for free market to operate. > That being said, I do b

> The more independently operating companies there are operating their own cables, the more room there is for free market to operate. > That being said, I do believe the notion of big corporations with pre-existing near monopolies on e.g. search or online retail with yearly revenues exceeding the gross national product of most nations on this planet, is not necessarily good for a free market To me, those two statements sound contradictory. Do you want a "free market" or don't you? If it's a free market, you have to expect that the organizations with the deepest pockets that stand to gain the most from larger internet pipes are going to be the ones to invest in it. I'm certainly no expert, but it seems to me that the more ideal situation would be that core infrastructure like the internet is driven primarily by public money. The obvious argument against that is maybe it won't grow as phenomenally fast as it has, but maybe we don't really need to be able to stream those 4K cat videos when, like you said, in doing so we're empowering for-profit organizations to grow larger than the GDP of many nations. > There have been some demands for some of these companies to be broken up and IMHO that would actually be a good thing. At least we're in 100% agreement here!