> *Not mentioned: there would be a single gatekeeper for the internet, Cloudflar...

ceejayoz · 2025-09-22T16:32:03 1758558723

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

It's not impossible. But it's hard.

acdha · 2025-09-22T17:08:10 1758560890

How would that work short of them buying most of the fiber in the world? A natural monopoly is a big problem for ISPs but they don’t do last-mile and they don’t appear to be anywhere close to being able to manipulate thr transit market.

ceejayoz · 2025-09-22T17:19:51 1758561591

> How would that work short of them buying most of the fiber in the world?

Did Google need that to dominate search?

acdha · 2025-09-22T17:34:46 1758562486

No, and they didn’t have a natural monopoly there either.

ceejayoz · 2025-09-22T18:45:28 1758566728

I'm not sure I'd agree.

https://www.promarket.org/2017/05/09/google-close-natural-mo...