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Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by beberlei on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:00AM (#50426581)
Power, natural gas, gasoline, water, mobile contracts, railways, internet access are probably better analogies. They have tendencies to (local) monopolies but also a lot of precedent and knowledge on how to regulate and break them, how to introduce competition.
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Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by soperj on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:00AM (#50427349)
they broke up Ma Bell, but they've never done anything about the internet access. Mobile is an oligopoly.
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Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by smallmancontrov on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:10AM (#50427496)
The breakup of AT&T was the proximal cause of the Ronald Reagan / Robert Bork dismantling of the US antitrust apparatus.

Here's the thing: we could bring it back. It had a good 50 year run, it could have another. Lina Khan was working on it, you probably saw the flak. This was on the ballot in 2024 and it will be again in 2028.

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Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by rcxdude on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:28AM (#50427794)
I don't think so. You can't practically buy electricity from halfway across the planet but you can buy tokens. There's no local infrastructure to monopolise.
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