[Wallace T.]

Would you have told a farmer in 1890 that if they didn't like the rates charged by a railroad, he could build his own railroad? Would you have told a consumer in 1900 if he didn't like the price of kerosene from Standard Oil, he could form his own oil company? Big tech has become the modern version of a utility.

[semimojo]

Would you have told a farmer in 1890 that if they didn't like the rates charged by a railroad, he could build his own railroad?

If it was as easy to build a railroad as it is to start a social media site, yes.