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Fun fact: United used to be part of Boeing. The two were split in 1934 when a scandal around air mail pricing led to laws saying you couldn't both make planes a

• igravious 7y ago
  "you couldn't both make planes and operate them commercially." We need a way more laws like this :) I'll start with 3 off the top of my head. 1) You can't both make content and distribute content commercially 2) (More abstractly) You can't both make a platform and compete with sellers and resellers on that platform 3) You can't both make a mass or social media product and allow advertisers' concerns to dictate content They're a bit sketchy but you get where I'm coming from I hope?
  • wvenable 7y ago
    Sometimes this has unintended consequences. For example, not being able to make cars and sell them directly as created a system that doesn't necessarily benefit consumers.
  • ggm 7y ago
    Australia has media policy like this in regard to newspaper TV and radio in Metro areas. Didn't stop Rupert Murdoch centralised ownership of media but kind of kept it at bay. Also banking.