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Cartel, really?

• chewbacha 5y ago
  Right? I thought so too, but this is the first definition from the American heritage dictionary: > A combination of independent business organizations formed to regulate production, pricing, and marketing of goods by the members. And it does seem to apply ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  • cdot2 5y ago
    They're not regulating anything. They just make the best datasets and those are the ones that get used
    • chaps 5y ago
      Legal regulation, no, but in the sense of having groups of internal people approving the release of data, data cleanup processes, data input, etc etc etc... yes, it's 100% regulated. At least in the cybernetics sense.
      • cdot2 5y ago
        That's true of all organizations that release data. They're regulating their own data. They're not regulating the use of that data
        • chaps 5y ago
          Since we're talking about this in a definitional context you can just as easily argue that a drug cartel doesn't regulate the use of their drugs..
          • cdot2 5y ago
            A cartel regulates a market. Drug cartels regulate the buying and selling of drugs. This "cartel" doesn't regulate any market