Every privatization of essential infrastructure is a potential hostage situation. No Board not subject to public elections which meets in secret and can't be held accountable by the general public has any business controlling anything anyone really needs.
So do you propose that all utilities, transport etc. should be no longer privatized and revert to public utilities?
You'd get rid of 'potential' hostage situation which can be easily resolved with government pressure or legal changes, and replace it with the usual governmental civil dept inefficiency and lack of accountability.
I agree that private monopoly is awful, and we're very close to that here since SpaceX is so far ahead of alternatives. But even so, if they really try to hold their customers hostage, they do have choices to migrate to in most cases. Whereas, if a public utility messes up there's no competitor at all.
