Ah yea, I remember all that drama and fear mongering that amounted to nothing .

The issue comes starts we start regulating and trusting baker's like brewers and butcher's like doctors. If I am in the market for beer then the brewer is fine but if I'm in the market for bread I sure hope it has not fermented.

Similarly, if I am in need of ad subsidized internet then fine but I would not want additional public funding or regulatory capture to assist Facebook.

Grocers are not natural monopolies.

Adam Smith died before John Stuart Mill coined the concept, and a full century before electricity was invented.