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Of course they were forced, if being forced means "having force applied to". Did they HAVE to do it? No. Were they forced to? Yes, of course. Much in the same
by jstummbillig 7y ago
Of course they were forced, if being forced means "having force applied to". Did they HAVE to do it? No. Were they forced to? Yes, of course.
Much in the same way that you don't have to work but are very much forced to.
- eloisant 7y agoTheir choice is either do it, or lose a significant portion of their business. For some business, maybe not Basecamp, it would mean going out of business if you don't have enough visibility on Google. Because Google has a quasi-monopoly on Internet search, something that ideally should be a neutral infrastructure service.
- makomk 7y agoGoogle also use their near-monopoly in web browsing, obtained by leveraging their search monopoly, to hide and downplay direct URLs to sites so that people don't know any other way to get there than via their search.
- ddtaylor 7y agoWho forces you to work?
- yifanl 7y agoMy need to acquire capital to purchase the goods required to survive forces me to work, being the only reliable manner to acquire said capital. If your counterclaim is that no one forces me to survive then I suppose I don't have an answer beyond that.