Pay for an email service, and sue if you incur damages due to them terminating your service. Or run your own email server if you care to.
It's ironic that you chose Standard Oil as an example. It was an unbeatable monopoly that was broken up by govt regulation, not by competition. You're arguing against your own position.
> Pay for an email service, and sue if you incur damages due to them terminating your service.
You always sign away this right when using a commercial email service. Their terms of use allow them to terminate your account with impunity.
> Or run your own email server if you care to.
This is a very 1990s understanding of the email ecosystem. It's almost impossible to start a new email service today because the big players (primarily Google and Microsoft) won't trust you and will silently refuse to deliver your emails. Sometimes you will be blanket banned, sometimes you'll just have a few missing here or there.
Because the email market is dominated by so few players, they have complete control over the ecosystem. Even if you choose your email service, your recipients will have chosen one of the big players 99.999% of the time, meaning you're also playing by their rules.
Only to find your mail blackholed by said behemoths because your counterparty uses them.
You realize that Standard Oil was broken up by the courts through the Sherman Act, which is precisely the type of regulatory action you're arguing against, right?
You pay Company X to host your email, and you enter into a service agreement. They kick your account off. If they're in violation of the service agreement, now you actually have a case against them. They know this. Their legal council knows this.
Feel free to vote for people who think companies can do as they please just because you aren't directly paying for them (even though they make money off you), I'll vote for other people.
> Its history as one of the world's first and largest multinational corporations ended in 1911, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was an illegal monopoly.
Seems like it was broken up by the government and not due to competition.