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Re:AT&T to cut off some customers' service in piracy crackdown by dreamcompiler on Thursday November 08, 2018 @01:40AM (#18404703)
> Moreover, in many cases the regulations are what make markets uncompetitive.

Regulation is necessary to prevent monopolies, and monopolies by definition make markets uncompetitive. Antitrust regulation protects capitalism from itself. Unfortunately the Antitrust division of the Justice Department has not been doing its job for several decades.

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Re:AT&T to cut off some customers' service in piracy crackdown by AnthonyMouse on Thursday November 08, 2018 @07:39PM (#18411451)
Antitrust enforcement is a completely different type of regulation than most others because the number one problem with most regulations is that they harm small businesses and add fixed costs that promote business consolidation. By contrast, antitrust by its nature applies only to very large businesses and does not have that problem.
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