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[masklinn]

> Private firms with monopoly power never last, unless that monopoly power is augmented by the government.

Ma Bell was a monopoly long before the government tried to reign it in.

[starnixgod → masklinn]

The government birthed the Ma Bell monopoly with the Willis Graham Act.

[masklinn → starnixgod]

You're completely off your rocker.

The Willis Graham Act nullified the Kingsbury Commitment by which the government had tried to stop the unfettered expansion of Ma Bell, since it hadn't actually worked the government shifted to trying to regulate Ma Bell itself through the ICC (and the FCC a few years later).