Comment by CharlesW

9 months ago

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

I don't get it. Can you point out where Cloudflare gains the power to prevent Google or any other company from doing the same?

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

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

  • 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.