Then there are monopolies that are removed from public scruitiny altogether (eg. Cloudflare). One main irony to us, is that that #FFFDotOrg link you posted is on a Cloudflare website, @lain, many social progress indicators have been or are going down especially since the 1970s.
Most thinkers seem to be on the page of #naturalMonopolies being managed by the ppl collectively - ie. govt and not by oligarchic corporations.