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It's not regulations we need, it is better education. Especially skeptical thinking. No one would expect Google to not suppress search results that harms its b

• s3r3nity 6y ago
  >It's not regulations we need, it is better education. Especially skeptical thinking. As someone who is pretty much exclusively against regulation - I agree with you. However regulation to ensure competitive markets is totally appropriate for government responsibility. >No one would expect Google to not suppress search results that harms its business. It is called capitalism. This is fine if Google were some upstart or new entry to the market. Example: Bing has done this for years with promoting its own products / services like Office 365 in search results. The issue comes when you own a _massive_ share of the market, then in the eyes of the law it becomes anticompetitive. > It's like going to a Honda car dealer and expecting to get offered the best deal on a Toyota. Not quite an apt comparison, as the car market is very competitive, and Honda / Toyota only have ~7-10% market share within the US, respectively. So in your example, YES it would be dumb to assume that. However if Honda had 95% market share and therefore could undercut any price Toyota offered by taking negative profits in the short-term, then it would absolutely be problematic.