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> If you really want to take Google down a peg, you need to build better products than they do. This is a meme that really needs to die. If something is harmfu
by ForHackernews 5y ago
> If you really want to take Google down a peg, you need to build better products than they do.
This is a meme that really needs to die. If something is harmful, we don't have to wait for a "better" alternative to regulate it. Unleaded gasoline was objectively worse at powering cars, and some people at the time even whined about it, but they were wrong. If regulating Google and Facebook means we have to live with marginally clunkier online tools, so be it.
- codingdave 5y agoThat isn't a meme, that is truth. I think your real concern is the definition of "better". In your example of gasoline, public health is more important that power, so "better" gas is measured by health. So we are both right - products need to be "better", but at the same time, by all means schedule time with your local boards to explain to them why these concerns mean that other products are "better", even if clunky.