David R. Henderson: Free Markets Are Monopoly Busters

Competition does the work that regulators can’t—especially in a technological age.

In January 1969, two months after I had turned eighteen, I read that the last official act of Lyndon Johnson’s administration was to bring an antitrust suit against IBM for monopolizing the market for mainframe computers. I was angry. You might wonder why. Was it because the lawsuit would waste resources of both IBM and taxpayers? It did do that, but my anger was more fundamental. IBM had worked hard for its position, and it seemed to me that it was being punished for succeeding and for producing something that companies wanted to buy. “No one gets fired for buying IBM” was a well-known slogan at the time.

Bob Edlin: A fear that tikanga was missing from the internet....

A fear that tikanga was missing from the internet makes way for a fear that Maori are being left out of IT developments

Something called Kauwaka Te Ipurangi – the inaugural national Māori Internet hui – has been giving our indigenous people the opportunity to grapple with information technology.

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