Zeing0Ch

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by Zeing0Ch 6y ago
> If Google and Facebook would be locally home grown [...] it would be safe to assume the EU would let many of the current things slide. These laws are not designed to hit only Google and Facebook they are hitting tech in general, includ
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by Zeing0Ch 6y ago
Whats even the point of becoming a Google or Apple if then some clueless bureaucrat gets to tell you what you are allowed to do with your market position? Nobody is stopping other companies to build their own Android or iPhone, its working
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by Zeing0Ch 6y ago
People do vote with their wallets, there are many websites that let you pay to remove ads. How is that not self-regulating? > That's how we got leaded gasoline for 60+ years. But lead wasn't known to be bad, once it was, an ent
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by Zeing0Ch 6y ago
I don't think that any government should ever make such fine-grained regulation. Telling the most innovative companies on the planet how they supposed to function is a recipe for disaster. There will never be another Google-like compan
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by Zeing0Ch 6y ago
I think your comparisons are terrible, they are either not the same product at all or exactly the same argument applies. Of course food banks should (and are in many places) be means tested, so as not to compete with grocery stores. You can
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by Zeing0Ch 6y ago
I actually am a shareholder of CenturyLink, I really don't care if you think that's satire, as long as the people we put in charge do everything they can to make it happen.
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by Zeing0Ch 6y ago
The market already makes commercial ISPs "step up their game and provide even better access" exactly as you say, it works perfectly. If you have every community suddenly owning their own fibre in the streets they live on, what are
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by Zeing0Ch 6y ago
This should be illegal, how could private enterprises possibly compete with community organized ISPs? You have to take into account the increase in profit every ISP has to make every year. How is the industry going to survive if you allow c