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I think a lot of governments would be much quicker to regulate companies like Google and Facebook if they weren't also fighting for these political issues. At t
by xmprt 6y ago
I think a lot of governments would be much quicker to regulate companies like Google and Facebook if they weren't also fighting for these political issues. At the end of the day, these political stances help further the companies original mission.
- throwaway894345 6y agoThis comment doesn't make much sense to me. I'm not sure if you're talking about political stances that are meaningfully related to the company's mission, and in either case how that would affect governments' willingness to regulate those companies. Are you simply arguing that governments would be more willing to regulate Google if Google didn't spend so much lobbying against regulation? In that case, obviously (this is pretty much tautologically true), but how does that relate to what we're discussing? If we're talking about political stances like "police shootings are unjustly biased against black people", then that's about as unrelated to Google's mission as one could imagine. It seems like mental gymnastics either way.
- 1MachineElf 6y agoThe parent comment is talking about how it is politically dangerous to be seen attempting to regulate companies that virtue signal.