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I have no idea if The Daily Mail claims have any merit, but you do not want to live in a country where thief cannot report burglary.

by comboy 5y ago

maxehmookau 5y ago
This is exactly the completely deregulated free-market economy that op-eds in the daily mail have been asking for for decades. They don't like it when it comes back to bite them.
- comboy 5y ago
  s/burglary/theft then
- optimalsolver 5y ago
  "No capitalist ever saw a market and wished it free."
  - treeman79 5y ago
    Of course people don’t want to compete. Too bad. Capitalism is about increasing efficiency / resources through brutal competition. Just don’t let them make laws giving one group special treatment. Like banning the competition.
    - Jeff_Brown 5y ago
      Who don't want to compete with who? This is between a news publisher and a search engine; they're not exactly in the same business.
      - elliekelly 5y ago
        Sure they are: they both make money from selling ads don’t they?
        bagacrap 5y ago
        If they're equals does it make sense to ask when's the last time the DM sent traffic to Google?
        deleted 5y ago
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      - treeman79 5y ago
        Google news
        Jeff_Brown 5y ago
        The article says the DM is accusing Google of burying the DM's results in favor of other news outlets'. The dispute is not about Google favoring its own news, as if there were such a thing, over the DM's.
- vixen99 5y ago
  A completely deregulated free-market economy would have no recourse to the courts. Such does not exist. I have no idea regarding the merits of the case but so far we don't know who's to get bitten.
  - Jeff_Brown 5y ago
    Courts are integral to a free market. Without them all sorts of markets evaporate completely. More generally, having a market does not mean having a government that supplies no public goods -- that is, having a government, since supplying public goods is all a government does.
    - Jeff_Brown 5y ago
      The confusion may be a linguistic one -- conflation of the terms "competitive" and "unregulated", and of "a" market with "the" market. The existence of some free markets does not imply that every market is free. Excepting failed states, nowhere is every market free -- the markets for grenades, ivory, medical licenses, political appointments, assassinations, etc. are all things most of us want either tightly controlled or entirely suppressed. And even in an extremely competitive market, like the ones for lettuce or generic drugs, there are still important roles for government to play. Of course regulation can be and often is grossly wasteful, even corrupt. But it's also critical to our safety.
- rchaud 5y ago
  This is a level of gotcha akin to "NYTimes shows ads, so they have no authority to criticize Google" that we see on HN.
  - sldksk 5y ago
    No, it’s not. Participating in capitalism is not equivalent to advocating for it.
- roenxi 5y ago
  Being pro-free-market is against the interests of incumbents, and if in fact an incumbent was pro-free-market regardless then that is laudable. Incumbents are protected by regulations. There is a lot to dislike about the Daily Mail I'm sure (I don't read it). But you aren't catching them in a moment of hypocrisy here. Everyone hates losing, doesn't mean they are wrong about what the rules of the game should be.
treeman79 5y ago
Why not? The poor thief is just trying to support his 20 orphan kids. People should feel honored when they are robbed and left for dead.
sshagent 5y ago
I agree with what your saying, but have no sympathy for the rag that is the Daily Mail
- 0898 5y ago
  I used to be very much of the same opinion. But increasingly I find the Daily Mail to be the only place to turn for a sensible reaction to woke hysteria – like the supposed "rape culture" in schools, and the recent walkouts over the flying of the Union Jack at the Pimlico Academy.
  - sldksk 5y ago
    Try r/stupidpol
  - maxehmookau 5y ago
    Wait.. what? You find the DM a home for "sensible reaction" to cultural issues? That's horrifying.
    - 0898 5y ago
      I would have been amazed even 5 years ago too. For example, I listened to Harry and Meaghan's cringeworthy new podcast on Spotify. Afterwards I clicked around the web, trying to find some commentary that would truly sum up my feelings. Eventually I landed on the Daily Mail's site and what do I see? A headline: "Woke Word-Salad". At that point I had to concede: okay, maybe this is where I belong.
AuthorizedCust 5y ago
> where thief cannot report burglary Written from the perspective that the most straightforward explanation is true: Bad analogy. Nobody entered anyone else's business. The defendant prefers that its users get good quality information, and the plaintiff's reputation for low quality information runs afoul of that practice. Also, why would a thief report his own crime?
- bluefirebrand 5y ago
  I don't think it's meant as an analogy, it's an idiom. > Also, why would a thief report his own crime? The thief isn't reporting their own crime, they are reporting that they have been robbed by someone else.
- deelowe 5y ago
  It's an idiom. It basically means that someone who committed a lesser, but similar crime wouldn't be able to report a crime themselves.
- blackshaw 5y ago
  > The defendant prefers that its users get information that a) maximises the defendant's ad revenue and b) advances the defendant's preferred narratives. FTFY
jhgb 5y ago
> you do not want to live in a country where thief cannot report burglary There was a Daily Mail article about a thief who was unable to report a burglary? Or what exactly did you mean by that?
- RKearney 5y ago
  It appears to be an idiom for a party in the wrong (Daily Mail for clickbait article) from being allowed to report that they were wronged (manipulated search results by Google) since the parent poster seemed to suggest that Daily Mail somehow deserved that treatment and two wrongs make a right.
  - jhgb 5y ago
    That's a weird idiom, then, considering that Daily Mail is in the UK and Google is in the US. And considering that Daily Mail is not a search engine, so they're not comparable entities to begin with. And that I'm not even sure that Google was in the wrong here in the first place. So I was confused on multiple levels, apparently.
    - scatters 5y ago
      Per Wikipedia, 70% of the Daily Mail's web traffic is from outside the UK, mostly from the US.
      - jhgb 5y ago
        Not quite sure what this has to do with the idiom's inapplicability, unless "country" in it meant "world". But clearly the reason for what you point out is that the English-speaking world is way larger than the UK.

I have no idea if The Daily Mail claims have any merit, but you do not want to live in a country where thief cannot report burglary.

by comboy 5y ago

I have no idea if The Daily Mail claims have any merit, but you do not want to live in a country where thief cannot report burglary.

maxehmookau 5y ago

This is exactly the completely deregulated free-market economy that op-eds in the daily mail have been asking for for decades. They don't like it when it comes back to bite them.

comboy 5y ago
s/burglary/theft then
optimalsolver 5y ago
"No capitalist ever saw a market and wished it free."
- treeman79 5y ago
  Of course people don’t want to compete. Too bad. Capitalism is about increasing efficiency / resources through brutal competition. Just don’t let them make laws giving one group special treatment. Like banning the competition.
  - Jeff_Brown 5y ago
    Who don't want to compete with who? This is between a news publisher and a search engine; they're not exactly in the same business.
    - elliekelly 5y ago
      Sure they are: they both make money from selling ads don’t they?
      - bagacrap 5y ago
        If they're equals does it make sense to ask when's the last time the DM sent traffic to Google?
        deleted 5y ago
        [deleted]
    - treeman79 5y ago
      Google news
      - Jeff_Brown 5y ago
        The article says the DM is accusing Google of burying the DM's results in favor of other news outlets'. The dispute is not about Google favoring its own news, as if there were such a thing, over the DM's.
vixen99 5y ago
A completely deregulated free-market economy would have no recourse to the courts. Such does not exist. I have no idea regarding the merits of the case but so far we don't know who's to get bitten.
- Jeff_Brown 5y ago
  Courts are integral to a free market. Without them all sorts of markets evaporate completely. More generally, having a market does not mean having a government that supplies no public goods -- that is, having a government, since supplying public goods is all a government does.
  - Jeff_Brown 5y ago
    The confusion may be a linguistic one -- conflation of the terms "competitive" and "unregulated", and of "a" market with "the" market. The existence of some free markets does not imply that every market is free. Excepting failed states, nowhere is every market free -- the markets for grenades, ivory, medical licenses, political appointments, assassinations, etc. are all things most of us want either tightly controlled or entirely suppressed. And even in an extremely competitive market, like the ones for lettuce or generic drugs, there are still important roles for government to play. Of course regulation can be and often is grossly wasteful, even corrupt. But it's also critical to our safety.
rchaud 5y ago
This is a level of gotcha akin to "NYTimes shows ads, so they have no authority to criticize Google" that we see on HN.
- sldksk 5y ago
  No, it’s not. Participating in capitalism is not equivalent to advocating for it.
roenxi 5y ago
Being pro-free-market is against the interests of incumbents, and if in fact an incumbent was pro-free-market regardless then that is laudable. Incumbents are protected by regulations. There is a lot to dislike about the Daily Mail I'm sure (I don't read it). But you aren't catching them in a moment of hypocrisy here. Everyone hates losing, doesn't mean they are wrong about what the rules of the game should be.

treeman79 5y ago

Why not? The poor thief is just trying to support his 20 orphan kids. People should feel honored when they are robbed and left for dead.

sshagent 5y ago

I agree with what your saying, but have no sympathy for the rag that is the Daily Mail

0898 5y ago
I used to be very much of the same opinion. But increasingly I find the Daily Mail to be the only place to turn for a sensible reaction to woke hysteria – like the supposed "rape culture" in schools, and the recent walkouts over the flying of the Union Jack at the Pimlico Academy.
- sldksk 5y ago
  Try r/stupidpol
- maxehmookau 5y ago
  Wait.. what? You find the DM a home for "sensible reaction" to cultural issues? That's horrifying.
  - 0898 5y ago
    I would have been amazed even 5 years ago too. For example, I listened to Harry and Meaghan's cringeworthy new podcast on Spotify. Afterwards I clicked around the web, trying to find some commentary that would truly sum up my feelings. Eventually I landed on the Daily Mail's site and what do I see? A headline: "Woke Word-Salad". At that point I had to concede: okay, maybe this is where I belong.

AuthorizedCust 5y ago

> where thief cannot report burglary Written from the perspective that the most straightforward explanation is true: Bad analogy. Nobody entered anyone else's business. The defendant prefers that its users get good quality information, and the plaintiff's reputation for low quality information runs afoul of that practice. Also, why would a thief report his own crime?

bluefirebrand 5y ago
I don't think it's meant as an analogy, it's an idiom. > Also, why would a thief report his own crime? The thief isn't reporting their own crime, they are reporting that they have been robbed by someone else.
deelowe 5y ago
It's an idiom. It basically means that someone who committed a lesser, but similar crime wouldn't be able to report a crime themselves.
blackshaw 5y ago
> The defendant prefers that its users get information that a) maximises the defendant's ad revenue and b) advances the defendant's preferred narratives. FTFY

jhgb 5y ago

> you do not want to live in a country where thief cannot report burglary There was a Daily Mail article about a thief who was unable to report a burglary? Or what exactly did you mean by that?

RKearney 5y ago
It appears to be an idiom for a party in the wrong (Daily Mail for clickbait article) from being allowed to report that they were wronged (manipulated search results by Google) since the parent poster seemed to suggest that Daily Mail somehow deserved that treatment and two wrongs make a right.
- jhgb 5y ago
  That's a weird idiom, then, considering that Daily Mail is in the UK and Google is in the US. And considering that Daily Mail is not a search engine, so they're not comparable entities to begin with. And that I'm not even sure that Google was in the wrong here in the first place. So I was confused on multiple levels, apparently.
  - scatters 5y ago
    Per Wikipedia, 70% of the Daily Mail's web traffic is from outside the UK, mostly from the US.
    - jhgb 5y ago
      Not quite sure what this has to do with the idiom's inapplicability, unless "country" in it meant "world". But clearly the reason for what you point out is that the English-speaking world is way larger than the UK.