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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
by maxehmookau 6y 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 6y agos/burglary/theft then
- optimalsolver 6y ago"No capitalist ever saw a market and wished it free."
- treeman79 6y agoOf 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 6y agoWho 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 6y agoSure they are: they both make money from selling ads don’t they?
- bagacrap 6y agoIf they're equals does it make sense to ask when's the last time the DM sent traffic to Google?
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- treeman79 6y agoGoogle news
- Jeff_Brown 6y agoThe 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 6y agoA 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 6y agoCourts 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 6y agoThe 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 6y agoThis is a level of gotcha akin to "NYTimes shows ads, so they have no authority to criticize Google" that we see on HN.
- sldksk 6y agoNo, it’s not. Participating in capitalism is not equivalent to advocating for it.
- roenxi 6y agoBeing 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.