@2: totally agree
@3, 4, 5: yes, absolutely! if not banned, at least forceably broken up, like it happened in the past with AT&T, the "we don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company" joke was only partially a joke mind you. From that breaking up of the massive monopoly platform, not only didn't the market quality worsen as pro monopoly advocates warned left and right, but also new and innovative devices and strategies were invented by the smaller and nimbler companies, once they were again separated from the AT&T umbrela. So, perhaps, time came to repeat history? I mean, the DOJ is currently in a case with both google and apple, the FTC blocked some really dangerous mergers, noncompeats were recently banned across the whole US, so who knows, things may slowly, glatially improve, but I believe that eventually they will do so. I mean, the bill for net neutrality was passed back in legislation, which means that ISP's are again regulated more, same as telecommunications companies, so they are limited in what scummy tricks they can do. Who allowed those companies to dictate what businesses get what data speeds on the internet based on how much bribe they can pay them in the first place? well, the trump administration, so yeah, governments are bullshit. Also, not only media and telecom companies should be broken up, I believe the same of any monopoly, google's and facebook's illegal rigging of the ad market, anyone remembers the jedi blue project? But also microsoft, apple, and whoever is a monopoly in the meat and other foods industry. Why? well, capitalism is only fair when you got lots of competition, and you're prevented by that from worsening your services as an intermediary, to both consumers and producers, shifting ever more of the proffit towards your own bord and shareholders. One should also bann being able to criminally prosecute someone just for reverse engineering drm solutions, because that's also a form of cheating at the game, if your products were so great, you need not be woried about piracy, as it won't be significant enough. And also, adblockers aren't illegal...yet, because no one has been able to legally restrict what users can do with web pages on the internet without it backfiring on those corporates lobbying for this in the first place, but you know what's much easier to regulate? yep, mobile apps! put a digital lock on those, such a slight protection, that can even be from the mobile OS, and suddanly the person who wants to make their lives better can be prosecuted for circumventing intellectual property. So like, companies can do all sorts of privacy violations, rig ad markets and who knows what else, it's apparently fine when they do it with an app. But anyways, this is rambly enough as it is, so I'll end it and hit submit now, lest my browser crashes before I can do so.