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Do you remember what Google did to Yahoo!? Using the government is an authoritarian way to achieve your goals. It's fascist by definition. It is very disturbing

• TeMPOraL 7y ago
  > It is very disturbing to read stuff like this. Like what? Like the footnote about pressure likely needing to be regulatory, because there's literally no way the market will do the right thing on its own? > Patience is a virtue; I'm sorry free enterprise (and liberty, in general) is not fast enough for you. It's more that it never happens when it should. Proper balance is achieved - if at all - when a piece of technology becomes boring so commercial entities don't care, because they're busy balkanizing a newer technology. So yes, it takes too long, human lives are too short, and I'd like the world to move to the point where new technologies aren't kept in perpetual state of sucking until they're bled dry of profits. > The ends do not justify the means, no matter how great your intentions. Come on, we're not talking about killing people here, just about discouraging greedy behaviour. Also, what you consider "fascist" I'd consider leveling the playing field and allowing smaller actors to participate. At the very least, I'd like to see legal protections around IP and terms of service weakened, to promote what EFF calls "adversarial interoperability".