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Re:A History of Visa by wffurr on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:59PM (#20539693)
That is an excellent question. Why isn't internet search also treated like a public utility?
Re:A History of Visa by MSD1976 on Friday July 26, 2019 @11:33PM (#20540224)
Don’t know. Where and how do you draw the line?
Re:A History of Visa by wffurr on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:50AM (#20555165)
I would certainly draw it much closer to the public interest that it is now by most countries.

In particular, "platform" businesses like Visa, Google, Amazon, etc. should at a bare minimum restricted from competing with the users of their platform. Ideally, the social value of the platform would be made public by a government buyout (aka nationalization) instead of flowing to the hands of the few select shareholders of the platform or subject to the whims of the platform company's executives.

Re:A History of Visa by wffurr on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:35AM (#20573462)
Here's a more concrete proposal from someone much closer to the ability to affect this sort of change. https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big.... It includes a definition of a "platform utility".