> Who is allowed to vertically integrate, and who isn't? Under what principle of free markets and user choice? There is no 'free market' in any environment tha

> Who is allowed to vertically integrate, and who isn't? Under what principle of free markets and user choice? There is no 'free market' in any environment that is 'vertically integrated' by a handful of organizations. The very reason why we abolished feudal aristocracy and even went to the extent of doing revolutions and setting up guillotines was to get rid of that kind of environments - which its owners were totally unwilling to let go. Technological corporate feudalism is as bad as aristocratic feudalism of the yesteryear. They are both based on the concept of property ownership to start with, so they stem from the same concept of private tyrannies where a private tyrant can do whatever it want with what it 'owns' even if it dominates the lives of millions of people.