And the foundation - the Dark Tower upon which all the beams converged- was antitrust enforcement, grounded in the idea that we could not afford to let any company - not a "good" company, nor a "bad" company - get so large that it could no longer be regulated, lest its executives become "autocrats of trade":
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/20/we-should-not-endure-a-king/
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