The counter example is the way the Soviets dealt with chemicals, oil, power. Personally, I think that the government vs. industry split becomes rather academic

The counter example is the way the Soviets dealt with chemicals, oil, power. Personally, I think that the government vs. industry split becomes rather academic when you are speaking of monopolies, especially monopolies that spy on you. I expect that there's a slow motion merger into a GoogleFacebookMicrosoftApple.gov body with the companies acting as cabinet branches.