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Any company with revenue greater than a certain amount, like a billion a year, or even way less, should fall into some category of public regulation that sets c

Any company with revenue greater than a certain amount, like a billion a year, or even way less, should fall into some category of public regulation that sets certain standards for consumer support.

Symmetry 4y ago
If we have governments specifying what a company does in those circumstances, wouldn't you expect that they would mandate that Google not accept these credit cards? Accepting them sort of flies in the face of the whole "Know your customer" approach that it seems like every government is promoting.
- ngvrnd 4y ago
  Maybe, but that would be better than accepting them and then doing this.
verisimi 4y ago
Why on earth would Google pay lobbiests to write legislation like that for the government to make into law?! It's against their interests!
- fmajid 4y ago
  Not necessarily. Regulatory burdens ore more onerous on insurgents than on incumbents.
scarface74 4y ago
Yes because giving government more power can never go wrong.
chimen 4y ago
I would not place it by revenue but by amount of customers served
- marcosdumay 4y ago
  I see no problem at all on measuring it by market share, as a proxy of consumer choice. One just have to keep in mind that the market has to be localized, not aggregated at some huge population.
  - johannes1234321 4y ago
    Market share isn't a good measure unless you can clearly define the market. Make it too narrow and they are at 100%< make it too broad they are near 0% ... especially complicated with products you don't (directly) pay for ...
    - silon42 4y ago
      Should be a county level at most.
      - thfuran 4y ago
        But what's the market for Google, from which you're computing market share?
- adamc 4y ago
  Could be either/or.
- CPLX 4y ago
  That could inadvertently sweep up popular labor of love projects with almost no revenue, like hobbyist communities or fan sites and so on. A billion in topline revenue should do the trick. Once you hit that level you have to provide individualized human support. You're allowed to charge money for the support but it has to be available to anyone willing to pay at least a modest fee to communicate with a real person. If you don't like it fuck you, you have a billion dollars get the fuck over it.
  - llanowarelves 4y ago

Any company with revenue greater than a certain amount, like a billion a year, or even way less, should fall into some category of public regulation that sets certain standards for consumer support.

Symmetry 4y ago

If we have governments specifying what a company does in those circumstances, wouldn't you expect that they would mandate that Google not accept these credit cards? Accepting them sort of flies in the face of the whole "Know your customer" approach that it seems like every government is promoting.

ngvrnd 4y ago
Maybe, but that would be better than accepting them and then doing this.

verisimi 4y ago

Why on earth would Google pay lobbiests to write legislation like that for the government to make into law?! It's against their interests!

fmajid 4y ago
Not necessarily. Regulatory burdens ore more onerous on insurgents than on incumbents.

scarface74 4y ago

Yes because giving government more power can never go wrong.

chimen 4y ago

I would not place it by revenue but by amount of customers served

marcosdumay 4y ago
I see no problem at all on measuring it by market share, as a proxy of consumer choice. One just have to keep in mind that the market has to be localized, not aggregated at some huge population.
- johannes1234321 4y ago
  Market share isn't a good measure unless you can clearly define the market. Make it too narrow and they are at 100%< make it too broad they are near 0% ... especially complicated with products you don't (directly) pay for ...
  - silon42 4y ago
    Should be a county level at most.
    - thfuran 4y ago
      But what's the market for Google, from which you're computing market share?
adamc 4y ago
Could be either/or.
CPLX 4y ago
That could inadvertently sweep up popular labor of love projects with almost no revenue, like hobbyist communities or fan sites and so on. A billion in topline revenue should do the trick. Once you hit that level you have to provide individualized human support. You're allowed to charge money for the support but it has to be available to anyone willing to pay at least a modest fee to communicate with a real person. If you don't like it fuck you, you have a billion dollars get the fuck over it.
- llanowarelves 4y ago