"Voluntary cooperation and private markets- without government enforced monopolies everywhere you look."
Read Adam Smith. When he said "free markets" he was talking about markets free from economic rents, not from regulation. In fact, he believed democratic regulation was a crucial hedge against the power of Old Money to re-impose monopoly rents, on otherwise free enterprises.
The history of the internet proves he waa bang on. The only regulation has
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