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HN: a corporation with a monopoly dictating standards is bad Also HN: government bureaucrats dictating standards in a monopolistic manner is good Also HN: cho

HN: a corporation with a monopoly dictating standards is bad Also HN: government bureaucrats dictating standards in a monopolistic manner is good Also HN: choice good Also HN: the government must protect us from choice Yeah, sure. This is just psychotic nanny state behavior. Millions of Europeans cried out in unison: protect me from myself, I can't make decisions on my own, I'm not well enough informed to know what to do!

dzikimarian 4y ago
> HN: a corporation with a monopoly dictating standards is bad Typically on HN it's "Corporation enforcing closed standards is bad. Unless it's Apple. They for sure do this for innovation". I've seen people saying that iMessage is closed for "security", where there are literally emails from Apple execs denying that. Now tons of people state that USB 2.0 molded into different plastic was vastly superior to USB-C.