Anti-trust is a kludge that proves something went awry. We shouldn't have to go through a manual process of breaking up the power brokers, especially since government and big corporations frequently get into bed together. We should design systems and processes that are self-healing -- systems that allow sufficient natural competition that the eventuality of a monopoly virtually never occurs.
It's like a computer system. Yes, if you write corrupted data back to the database, you can manually go in there and do your best to rectify it, restoring pieces from backups, etc. But the strong emphasis should be on designing the system such that corruption is a near-impossibility.
Copyright and network protections are so excessive and far-reaching, it's no wonder we're seeing this re-centralization.
Anti trust is needed. Power and influence breeds more of itself.
You need regulation to keep free markets free.
Laisez fair will lead to power concentrating into monopolies. Decent anti-trust regulation, combined with laws preventing anti-competitive behavior is needed.
Granted, the anti-competitive part is also important.
It's like a computer system. Yes, if you write corrupted data back to the database, you can manually go in there and do your best to rectify it, restoring pieces from backups, etc. But the strong emphasis should be on designing the system such that corruption is a near-impossibility.
Copyright and network protections are so excessive and far-reaching, it's no wonder we're seeing this re-centralization.