On: UK regulator set to block Meta's Giphy deal

[zethraeus]

There’s a pretty good argument for functional monopolies facilitating innovation! We like our transistors and all that.

[blowski → zethraeus]

Transistors were originally invented during WW2. Reductio ad absurdum - we should have one big state monopoly controlling everything in the interests of permanent warfare.

[Y_Y → blowski]

The vacuum tube transistor was invented in 1907 by Forest, the modern solid-state transistor in 1947 by Bardeen and Brattain.

[hoseja → blowski]

That does feel like pretty much what is happening.