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See also the history of railroads and telecoms.

• version_five 3y ago
  Also every industry in Canada
  • mig39 3y ago
    The solution in Canada is to break up some of these huge companies. The free market can solve things, but only if there's a free market. When you have 1 or 2 companies, there's no competition.
    • WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
      > The solution in Canada is to break up some of these huge companies. The free market can solve things, but only if there's a free market. I'm not familiar with Canada but this sounds like oversight there is similar to how the US DoJ operates - which is to say it has a long history of rubberstamping (massive, competition-killing) mergers
    • version_five 3y ago
      It's more allowing foreign competition. If you let US (or whoever) telecom into Canada, Rogers Bell and Telus would have to get their act together or die overnight. Same with banking, air travel, etc. Canadas oligarchs have complete regulatory capture so they don't have to worry about being competitive, that's the problem.
• nologic01 3y ago
  The difference is one of degree (comprehensiveness) and potential impact. Total control of a mobility mode is bad, total control of a certain type of communication infrastructure is worse, but the fingeprinting and tracking and exploitation of every single digital device and information exchange is just out of the scale.