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Re:Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies by valuearb on Sunday April 23, 2017 @03:40PM (#14180032)
Free markets means they are free to entry, which means creating a monopoly is impossible.
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Re:Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies by pg314 on Sunday April 23, 2017 @05:14PM (#14180500)
That is nonsense. There are plenty of natural monopolies [1], where competitors are free to enter the market but simple can't compete. E.g. if there are economies of scale (e.g. Google search engine) or network effects (e.g. Facebook).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

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