If an ecosystem can be brought down by the absence of a single tool, it was already a moribund ecosystem. Things that are (or would otherwise be) good, are evil if a monopolist owns them, worse than if nothing so good existed.
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This is lovely, though as always my Reader take remains that the important thing isn't that (or whether) Reader's closure killed the blogosphere, but that Reader's rise to monopoly status doomed it in the first place.https://twitter.com/MonicaBPotts/status/1418055150749593606 …
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my understanding of antitrust law in the US is that it's fine if you get a monopoly in some market niche "naturally" (i.e. by having a product so good no one can compete) but you can't use that to promote other products (e.g. MS bundling IE with Win98, it was a whole thing)
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it seems to me that _if_ a company attains a monopoly "naturally", the law ought to contain provisions that automatically break up or nationalize the company.
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