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Lobbying is like the prisoner's dilemma. If you don't do it but your rival does then you'll end up with these extortion laws that hands Murdoch free money as we
by gerash 6y ago
Lobbying is like the prisoner's dilemma. If you don't do it but your rival does then you'll end up with these extortion laws that hands Murdoch free money as we saw in Australia
- CharlesW 6y agoThat's totally fair, and I understand that Google isn't unique in that respect. My point is that just because Google isn't doing flashy ad campaigns doesn't mean that they're not surreptitiously doing everything they can to continue to establish and cement their position as an unavoidable toll-taker on the internet.
- Siira 6y agoThey provide much more value than what they capture, and what they capture is pretty much necessary to serve those services (in the search space, not Android etc). The only way to make them capture less value is by tax, as we have seen. Other big tech companies are much more rent-seeking and can actually unlock swaths of value with proper regulation.