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Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by ashtonkem on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:25AM (#25090658)
Only the modern experience would lead you to believe that. The gilded era is a good example of how forced sales and/or abusive monopolies are not incompatible with democracy at all.
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Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by cynusx on Saturday November 14, 2020 @03:41AM (#25091054)
It was a democratic process that brought the anti-trust cases and established competition rules.

Democracies are not perfect and are always evolving

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